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 67 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 68Scan 67 of 510

3-X-1960 a Cypriot incised sign, incomplete unfortunately (ancient break)

Drawing: incised sign composed of two triangles] ; traces of red paint on the

stirrup . In 30-31 , under wall Iron Age E-W, discovery of a cavity of fairly loose brown-red earth with very large vessels in greenish earth of two different types, with two handles; bronze slag found in the same cavity, with some sherds apparently Middle Bronze (red-on-black, 1 fragment)

Sector 76-77 , discovery of stratum literally full of shells (small clams and cockles ?) with a layer of sherds of Middle Bronze (painted pottery and red-on-black type bowls, large jars with incised cordon below the neck, etc). This Middle Bronze stratum lies between 2m50 and 2m80 in depth During the afternoon, several walls(1) are identified by Mr Kuss and seem to date back to

(1) these walls of rubble are stratigraphically very below the foundations of the fine architecture

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

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