Document·34 CDF art. 154·1955

Report on the 1955 seasonH. de Contenson

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Typed in French. Every line is transcribed and translated, and the English sits beside the scan.

Scan 10 of document 34 CDF art. 154 (Report on the 1955 season), typed in French. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Collège de France, Paris, 34 CDF art. 154, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

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On a fine paving at 1 m., there was pottery of Late Bronze III II: Mycenaean, local imitation of Mycenaean with a series of black chevrons on green ground (pt 24), "milk bowl", with rare sherds of "red on red".

4/ Section to the West of pt 42.

On the lower floor, in soft ashy earth, sherds of the Late Bronze final are encountered: pottery of Cypro-Mycenaean style with pointed bases, "milk bowl". The level of the floor varies from 0.85 in the South to 1.20 in the North, where a bronze spearhead with socket and strong midrib was recognised (pt 42).

On the upper floor, traces of a Iron I workshop are found: earthenware tuyères (pt 66), base of hook "bucchero", vessel with short cylindrical spout. The floor itself is white, with a pit of 50 cm² in depth, full of ashes and blocks of burnt earth.

3/ Corridor to the West of the area of pt 65.

It is a construction made of two parallel North-South walls, 2.50 m. wide. It has two floors, at 0.50 and at 0.85.

Below this floor, the lower layer is represented by a rock cavity, filled with sherds of the end of the Middle Bronze (pt 81), descending to 1.60 depth: "red on black", "red on red", black decoration on light ground, earths with relief bands, handles with rectangular profile.

The middle layer, from 0.60 to 1.10 m., belongs to Late Bronze IIDI, with fairly abundant pottery: "milk bowl", "base ring", hand-made pottery, Mycenaean sherds with concentric lines in red or glossy black. There is perhaps a floor at 0.80; there is certainly one at 1.10, made of white lime and gravel. In the ashes covering it appeared an ivory disc with two lines incised on the edge (pt 69), a twisted arrowhead and a bronze pin (pt 76), and a grey steatite cylinder, very clear (pt 78).

The large storage jar of the Iron Age (pt 63), a fairly crude bust of a female figurine in brown earthenware (pt 68), at 0.60, and a bow fibula, in bronze.

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

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