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 307 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.

Page 55Scan 307 of 510

Tj. fine weather, hot early in the morning -

Monday 3 December 1962The stripping of the baulk which had supported the group of L.C. 902 tomb with human heads led in the morning to the uncovering of a new bull's head, set in the white lime plaster, of a kind of crushed enclosure? (cult), with walls white and sloping, set in the mud brick reddish-brown. This fifteenth bucranium head therefore lies directly beneath the t.c. red head with quarter-circle nose 902 A at 0 m 65 average depth.

A sixteenth bull's head is uncovered at 1 m 25 south of the fifteenth at 8h40, just in the east face of the trench - - Removal of a bull's head, in a plaster jacket made in situ, for the Museum of Nicosia. Systematic use of Vinyl Acetate.

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

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