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Handwritten in French. Every line is transcribed and translated, and the English sits beside the scan.
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Scan: Collège de France, Paris, 34 CDF art. 152-1, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.
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| 20.32 | Max. preserved height: 9,2. Rim diameter = 24 cm | |
| (continued) | Rim thickness = 0,76 cm. Wall thickness: 0,32 cm | |
| Spout length = 5,7 cm. Spout width = 3,4 cm. | |
| 20.33 | Jug in terracotta, "base-ring ware" | T. 1907 |
| Grey terracotta, with surface | (under street no. 2) |
| inner surface light brown, (drawing) | Chamber East |
| outer surface brown | Sherds 116, |
| light (light leather) to brown | 113, half |
| dark grey and metallic grey | N and quarter NW. |
| at the top of the neck. The dark colour is on the | 1 sherd of |
| left side of the vase (shown in the sketch above) | chamber West. |
| the light colour on the other half (except metallic grey patch | |
| at the top of the neck). Fine, hard, resonant, light terracotta, | |
| with some bubbles. Temper: some fairly large | |
| white grains are visible. Moreover, the surface | |
| of the vase is spotted with small holes (less than 1 mm to 2 mm | |
| diam.) caused by white grains (limestone) in the fabric. | |
| Hand-made in four parts (base, body, neck, handle). | |
| Surface of the neck scraped vertically, body and base well | |
| smoothed. Slip, of the same colour as the earth, carefully- | |
| applied with a brush, on the outside of the vase (and on | |
| the inside of the rim). Not distinguishable from the terracotta | |
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain
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