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 121 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 60Scan 121 of 188

Wednesday 5 December 1962Despite the humidity resulting from the rain of yesterday, the excavation can resume from 7h in the morning, the sun having returned, in the area of the "sanctuary of the centaurs and bull protomes"

Zone 2.26 E, from the first strokes of the pick at 7h 10, uncovered numer- ous sherds of vessels of varied sizes from the small bowl up to the large am- phora, resting on the compacted brown konos already observed under vessels 815, 825, 826 in the preceding weeks, in zone 26. This is floor I at 0 m 40 depth pt. top. 934 and 935, the neck of amphora 935 lying at 0 m 95 south of the thin-walled bowl (photos in situ) (fragments). Pt 936, bowl, zone 2.27 E

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

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