Notebook·34 CDF art. 133-2·1961–1963

Courtois's notebooks, Enkomi 1961, 1962, 1963Claude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer

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Handwritten in French. Every line is transcribed and translated, and the English sits beside the scan.

Scan 213 of notebook 34 CDF art. 133-2 (Courtois's notebooks, Enkomi 1961, 1962, 1963), handwritten in French. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Collège de France, Paris, 34 CDF art. 133-2, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

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14. XI -

Start of the new system for washing sherds, together with treatment in hydrochloric acid for the fragments covered with calcareous concretions, of the trench "pilot" West Dallage.

Pt= 721 at 0m 90, spindle whorl in haematite, conical shape, (drawing) in red-brown layer with bowl t. c. red of Cypriot Iron I with oblique handle –

In the tr. West Dallage, the stratigraphy of the floors and strata of the Iron Age appears very little disturbed = practically no "puit" in this area, unlike the East trench, opened in the morning

Cleaning (weeding) and reorganisation of the 1961 grid for the pottery of the tr. East, very rich in sherds from the start.

65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain

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