Notebook·34 CDF art. 135-1·1962

Enkomi 1962, excavation notebook of Jacques-Claude CourtoisJacques-Claude Courtois

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Handwritten in French. Every line is transcribed and translated, and the English sits beside the scan.

Scan 107 of notebook 34 CDF art. 135-1 (Enkomi 1962, excavation notebook of Jacques-Claude Courtois), handwritten in French. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Collège de France, Paris, 34 CDF art. 135-1, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

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on Saturday afternoon, photographs of detail of floor II of the hall with the bull protomes and the fragments of the inscribed pithos, and sorting of the pottery . Then from 16h 30 to 20h, cleaning painstaking of the curious terracottas bicephalous, centaurs, with heads of two different types. Under the thick concre- -tions of limestone, the surprise was great to discover a whole painted geometric decoration in "Close Style" but evidently chronologically later since this whole cultic group is indeed dated to the Protogeometric by the collection of vessels uncovered in area 26, i.e. 815, 834, 840, 826 above all = large characteristic amphora (precisely reassembled by me, for the most part in the evening of this Saturday 1st/XII) of the type known at Curium and elsewhere, as well as at the Kerameikos in Athens, at Argos, etc. h. 40 cm (drawing Mrs Kuss)

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

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