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 43 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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29-9-60 - In sector 74 75 to the east (continued) of the area of the children's tomb appeared in the course of the morning a fine wall in stones with a top showing the engraved characteristic of the fine constructions of Enkomi of the period called Sub-Mycenaean or Mycenaean III C, 2 This wall is aligned E-W. In the south half of the new East trench, one observes the existence of extensive earlier excavations, clandestine or not (a large cavity is located in 74 . In this same sector, jar tilted in place on the latest floor at - 1 m —

— In the centre (west) of the fine building, sector 30, the meticulous cleaning of the thick, original white floor has uncovered a large blackish area, a trace of the fire that ended the period of first occupation of the Building .

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

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