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 111 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.

Page 55Scan 111 of 188

Tj. fine weather, hot early in the morning

Monday 3 December 1962The stripping of the balk which had supported the group of t.c. 902 with human heads led in the morning to the uncovering of a new bull's head, set in the plaques of white lime, of a sort of enclosure? (cultic) crushed, with walls sloping white, set in the mudbrick brown-red. This fifteenth bucranium head therefore rests directly beneath the head t.c. red with quarter-circle nose 902 A at 0 m 65 average depth

A sixteenth bull's head is uncovered at 1 m 25 south of the fifteenth at 8h 40, just in the eastern wall of the trench. - Removal of a bull's head, in a plaster jacket made in situ, for the Museum of Nicosia. Systematic use of Vinyl Acetate.

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

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