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 303 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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On Saturday afternoon, photographs of detail of floor II of the hall with bull protomes and the fragments of the inscribed pithos, and sorting of the pottery . Then from 16h 30 to 20h, cleaning minutieux cleaning of the curious terracottas bicephalous, centaurs, with two heads of different types. Beneath the thick concretion calcareous, the surprise was great to discover a whole painted geometric of "Close Style" style, but evidently chronologically later since this whole cultic group is well dated to Protogeometric par the collection of vessels uncovered in area 26, i.e. 815, 834, 840, 826 especially = large characteristic amphora (1) (precisely reassembled by me, for the most part, in the evening of this Saturday 1st/XII) of the type known at Curium and elsewhere, as well as to the Ceramicus at Athens, at Argos, etc. (1) h. 40 cm

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

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