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 5 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 37Scan 5 of 510

resting on the paved square of slabs in stone, or the famous "paving" . This enigmatic stratification resembles strangely that which makes up the roads of the Enkomi grid . - Opposite 59 , under a thick white floor sherd of bichrome pottery of the type "Union Jack", at -1m45 (Pt. 381 ) - Opposite 47 , discovery of a seal "dome - shaped" with a roughly engraved scene of an animal, and of a large fibula broken, in bronze, of the violin bow type degenerate, (cf. perhaps Mouliana, Crete) . These finds are located in the stratum of grey, ashy earth, at a depth of 1m30 on average , at the level of the top of a wall of large blocks .

21 Sept. 60Beau tempsThe continuation of the research in the stratA. terraced above the paving seems to indicate a late sub-Mycenaean phase (painted sherds, fibula, seal) A cylinder wine-lees brown with stylised decoration = pt. 386

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

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