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 51 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 51 of 510

30-IX-60

Stamp: 60

Between pegs 71 and 72, uncovered a very fine ashlar wall with sharp joints, oriented N-S. Sector 73 74, in " pit ", base of vessel in steatite, engraved with a stylised plant decoration. (-1m60). Same sector, at -1 m 20 1 lamp in t.c. with one spout in situ, pt 522

In the layer covering the floor, at -1m50 found a bronze tool having kept its bone handle (chisel or punch) at pt 523, sector 70

In sector 74, abundant traces of a large fire, immediately to the north of the very fine "ashlar" wall; the face of the north facing of this E-W wall is entirely blackened. The ashes cover a large area of square 74, between 1 m 30 and 1 m 65 of average depth. The continuation of the search in sector 33 - 34 led to the discovery of an arrowhead of bronze arrow, pt 525 at - 1 m 50

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

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