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 175 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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SUPPLEMENT

[ from tape recording ] recorded during the excavation

8 Dec. 1962Tr. East 25

East of 135 of 1961

stratigraphic clearance under the sherds of pithos 851, resting in layer of ashes: From bottom to top: Above the sterile rock, we have 1 thick white floor 10 cm thick surmounted by a layer κόνιος of 5 cm grey-brown on which burnt floor of kilns for pottery It is on On this burnt floor, painted vase 1961 with superimposed birds, checkerboards and cross-hatched lozenges and today, the stirrup vase and the bowl 853 on same floor The limits of the kiln, the base too, then to the east, north and south. Only missing the west rim

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

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