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 469 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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11/12-X-63

The discovery of a clay loom weight fired of the common type found in the houses of Alasia, in this

Drawing: outline of a loom weight with a perforation near the top

underlying layer, there appears an indication of the absence of an earlier phase in the Hall, whose construction does not seem able to go back beyond the Cypriot Iron I, a phase in which its whole history is set, from floor II to floor I A; the fact that all the walls which close the Hall rest on the destruction layers of the town of the Late Bronze, especially in the W. part (square 25 to 27 E) is to be compared with the indications provided by the five or six vessels typically wavy lines found broken in situ at various points of the large Hall, on the Floor II at an average depth of 1 m 20 below the present surface, i.e. pt. 1177, pt. 1132, , 1219

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

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