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 14 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.

Unnumbered pageScan 14 of 42

Handwritten: 7

One notes there a <u>first floor</u> of lime at 0.60, under a layer of ashes (Pt. <u>4</u>), with a broken stone trough at 0.50 (Pt.<u>3</u>): on this floor there was a fragment of lamp stand and a handle with rectangular profile and black decoration on white slip.

Next comes a layer of small grey pebbles and burnt earth burnt core, between 0.70 and 1.00 m.; with pottery of the beginning of <u>Per I</u>: "dark on white slip", late "milk bowl", krater with flat rim and decorated with spirals ("Myc. III C 1"), of the beginning of the 12th c.

Lower down, between 1 m. and 1.50, one meets tuyères and [handwritten: tomb] a plaque in engraved bone (Pt. <u>20</u>, 1.55), mixed material: <u>Late Bronze III</u>: "milk bowl", hard hand-made pottery, Mycenaean krater with red decoration; <u>Late Bronze I</u>: teason point brown with geometric motif, very elongated handle at the rim of a cup, bichrome teason with grey base of "Union Jack" type; <u>Bronze Middle III</u>: ladle handle of greenish pottery with black bands, "red on black", "red on red", bichrome teason, burnished lamp, pottery painted with parallel bands brown-red, or black on greenish base with wavy bands.

<u>B/ Private houses in the southern part.</u>

Closer to the Bet-Ouest road, one meets in the part eastern of the area, south of a long Bet-Ouest wall, which separates them from the workshops, private houses, of which a small portion has been cleared.

<u>J/ Room at the north-east corner of the area.</u>

North of Pt. <u>63</u>, there is a small hall in the shape of an squareshaped, with a door towards the East. One recognises two floors there. On the <u>upper floor</u>, at 0.60, were piled jars for storage with ogival base, egalie marked with two handles at the shoulder (Pt. <u>71</u>); one also found there a "base ring" jug late (Pt. <u>72</u>) and a small stone dish.

On the <u>lower floor</u>, at 1 m. depth, there were two unperforated stone discs, an arrowhead with tang and a long rod ending in a swollen and pointed head, 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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