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 33 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 16Scan 33 of 188

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Saturday 17 NovemberZone 18, E. trench, topographic point 761 fine haematite weight (drawing) at 0m45 in the first level at the surface of a wall foundation of rough blocking.

E. trench, from zone 10 to zone 15 the excavation which ends with the emptying of pit-holes uncovered foundations of houses with rubble walls and some dressed blocks ashlar. These foundation courses appear set in a trench cut into the natural rock in certain cases (the natural rock here is not more than 1m / 1m10 deep on average). The first floor was situated at 0m45 / 0m50, the second floor at – 0m75 on average, and the third (white) at 0m90 / 1m00 resting on the layer thin of Late Bronze 2 (base-ring ware)

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

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