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 431 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 36Scan 431 of 510

In the S-E corner of the vast Hall, uncovered a series of foundations in rubble, delimiting a locus (?) or a small room, less regularly laid out than the N-W corner room

FRIDAY 4 Oct. 1963It was in this (or SAINT des SAINTS ? "sacristy" or "treasury" that the rim of a first appeared krater with oblique handles, apparently painted, at 6 h 40, then while digging carefully around the krater to better clear it, at 6 h 55 one struck with the point of the knife the end of the left horn of the Statuette in bronze of the god venerated in the Sanctuary of the Centaurs, the top of the horn lying at 0 m 80 from depth. The statuette lies in a very hard agglomerate of clayey earth

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

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