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 391 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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Monday 23 September 1963

Opening of the excavations all along the EST trench, squares 2.05 to 2.24 and 3.25 to 3.27, with 46 workmen and 6 girls, 2 boys, including a student from the Economical Gymnasium, intended to assist J-P. Nicolardot. In the Sanctuary zone, very few sherds, even coarse ones, in the first layer below the present surface, down to a depth of 0 m 50. However, the stripping by the women of the part of the Hall of the Bulls 1962 not yet completed, in the trench 2.25 / 2.27, has uncovered fairly typical fragmented pottery, including a spoon or ladle in t.c. 996 at 0 m 90, with bronze fragment

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

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