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 73 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 71Scan 73 of 510

Tuesday 4 October 1960

on floor / white {In sector 37, sherd of grey "milk-bowl" painted brown in situ in a layer of fine grey ash, at the base of the important stratification rerecognised in this sector, and 25cm below the thick white floor. - Sector 72, jar burial resting on the rock, at -2m, below the collapse of upper walls, dressed blocks fallen into brown earth - Sector 33, pt. 548, at -1m75 in brown earth, stone weight black polished (drawing) and bronze needle with eye - Sector 75, pt. 549, on jar resting at the base of a deep silo, discovery of a steatite seal

Drawing: trapezoidal shape with a circle in the centre] engraved on the face of a curious

motif roughly drawn (drawing), at 3m depth. Sector 77, "milk bowl" sherds on lower white floor situated 45 cm below the foundation course of the fine wall or levelling

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

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