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 17 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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Start of the new system of washing the sherds, together with treatment with hydrochloric acid for the fragments covered with calcareous concretions, of the trench pilot Ouest Dallage.

Pt^ 721 at 0 m 90, spindle whorl in hematite, conical shape, (drawing) in red-brown layer with bowl t.c. red of Cypriot Iron I with oblique handle –

In the tr. Ouest Dallage, the stratigraphy of the floors and strata of the Iron Age appears very little disturbed = practically no "pit" in this area, unlike the East trench, opened in the morning

Cleaning (weeding) and reorganisation of the 1961 grid for the pottery of the tr. East, very rich in sherds from the start.

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

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