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 65 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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In sector 42, 43, situated immediately north and lower down than the large paving; the resumption of the excavations in depth confirms the existence of remains of dwellings (?) dating to Middle Bronze, according to the abundant collection of painted sherds or of type red-on-black (cf. already p. 44 of the present excavation journal); brought to light of walls or wall foundations in rubble

?In sector 31, in brown earth sherds Late Bronze in the brownish layer under the thick white floor original of the Building (no sherds of a few sherds of pottery in the thickness of the white floor pottery including milkbowl Br Rec & 2 fgts of extending over the whole of the room base ring rather crushed under the white floor adhering . - Immediately below). These the Late Bronze sherds include mainly Cypriot "milk bowl", "leather ware" and a Mycenaean sherd painted in lustrous red of good workmanship .

Sector 73: in a "pit", handle of jar of type degenerate Mycenaean stirrup bears

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

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