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 15 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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Margin top: Fine weather 3rd day

Wednesday 14 NovemberAt dawn, a mass arrival of candidate workmen by bus, from Yialoussa in the Karpass, having come following an intervention by the Labour Exchange of the Famagusta district, Monday morning: the result: 61 workmen in all, of whom about forty with no experience of excavation archaeological prior to their engagement... 38 of these new workmen are distributed along the new trench EAST (of sect. H de Contenson 1961)

Tr. West Paving: from the beginning of the morning interesting stratified, painted pottery, in situ pt. top. 709 at 1m 20 of the ENKOMI type

pt. top. 710 at 1m = sherd Mycenaean III. B

pt. top. 711 at 1 m 35, in red earth , bronze stem + sherds

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

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