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 89 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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ENK. 61

Tuesday 7 November 1961An increase in the number of diggers which permit excavation of the whole of the trench opened the day before. Twenty workmen work thus in the area lying between the roads E-W, that of the temples to the North and that called axial or median to the South. Everywhere, the archaeological layer of the last period of Enkomi is reached beneath the thin surface layer of topsoil. Several "pits" are delimited during the morning in the sectors 101 105

Sector 101, spindle whorl and loom weight in t.c. common, of common type, at 0 m

Uncovered blocks of dressed ashlar to the South of the E-W road of the Temple.

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

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