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 21 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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Morning mist, sun afterwards

Thursday 15 NovemberSame workforce of workmen as the day before i.e. the figure of 61 - on the same trenches - The west trench, paving, is finished, and the cleaning has begun from the east.

In zone 2, floor apparently paved with blocks of white lime, very irregular, at 1m 55 average depth on which there were some fragments bronze = well with white curb, level Myc III C1

At the limit of 1 2, in the small locus situated immediately south of the hall of water and under the floor at -1m 50, in the underlying sandy and reddish layer numerous typical sherds, in situ, 1m 60 at 1m 70, pt. 737

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

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