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 45 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.

Unnumbered pageScan 45 of 510

29/9/60[stamp: 57]

- Sector 72 at - 1 m 30, bronze pin shank ? in reddish brown earth the shank, oxidised, seems twisted? _ Sector 73, another fragment of _thin shank in bronze_, at the same depth. Sector 71: uncovered remarkable dressed blocks, one of which has a very fine boss regular on the west facing face; these blocks appear to belong to the walls east and south of the fine "building with the cup".

Sector 70, jug with fluted body Iron Age on late floor near a coarse earthenware jar, at - 1m 35, pt 508 in context with sherd of bowl "wavy lines" very characteristic (drawing) - pt 509 at - 1 m 20, weight in black stone greenish carefully polished (drawing) 70. Inscribed handle pt 510 at - 1 m 10, sector 71. with spindle whorl steatite engraved concentric circles ques pt 510 = end of iron knife blade at - 1 m 10 in brownish earth 74 but very probably in old excavation

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

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