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 351 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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In the afternoon, a splendid winter sunset over the ruins of the Acropolis and the Agora. Extended visit to the collections of the Museum of the Stoa of Attalos, in the Agora: interesting late Mycenaean vases and of the Attic Protogeometric, among others.

Monday 17 December 1962 (Rain)

, written sideways: 1 Rue du Patr. Joachim, AthènesVain attempt to visit the excavations in progress at Medeon, on the Gulf of Anti kira, near Levadhia .... a terrible tornado forces me to turn back, Levadhia being flooded and the horizon black...

- Better luck in Athens, where Mr Spiros IAKOVIDIS, of the Greek Archaeological Society, the lucky excavator of Perati, receives me at his home and shows me the documents on

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

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