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 63 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 66Scan 63 of 510

? by me [?hb.]

?Monday 3 October 1960The excavations continue only in the East trench squares 30 to 38 (finishing the investigations) and squares 69 to 78. In the part west of the fine building 30 31, the workmen begin the original white floors and Mycenaean, in order to allow a study of the underlying strata, where they exist.

αSquare 34: also resumption of the careful excavation in the N-E corner: = Stratigraphic diagram under pt. 462/463 (cf. page 48) stratum of ash and charcoal th. 6 cm hard homogeneous white floor th. 4 cm sterile greyish-green clayey earth th. 4 cm stratum of red brick earth and white elements, 3 cm compact white floor, 6 to 8 cm th. red earth and lime 12 cm th stratum of grey ash, with sherds "milk bowl"

Drawing: horizontal line with diagonal hatching below it; labels: rock

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

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