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 6 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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G/ The room immediately to the East of the main street. The room which occupies the South-East corner of the crossroads measures about 5 m. East-West by 3 m. North-South; it has had two floor accessi- ble, one at 0.50, the other at 0.80.

Below the upper floor, down to 0.50, one finds Ter I pottery: "bucchero", jar base with grooves, bowl base with red concentric circles, handle with double stem ending in a ring shape, as well as a rosette (Pt. 20) and a quadruped (Pt. 21) coming from a miniature terracotta chariot. On the second floor, at 0.80, it seems one had a beginning of the Ter I: horizontal handles, cup with horizontal lug handle and band of [illegible] light on reddish slip, lamp with [handwritten: mark] strongly pinched spout, fragment of goblet foot with bands parallel red.

Below this floor, the material is rather mixed down to 1.50: end of Ter I: bowl in "wavy line" style ("Myc. III O 2"); beginning of Ter I: carinated bowl with red decoration on cream ground ("Myc. III G I"); Late Bronze II-III: pyro-Mycenaean features, "spindle bottle", incised handles of "base ring" type, bowl with recut wall, "milk bowl".

At 1.50 m. depth, immediately below the virgin soil, the pottery of the end of the Middle Bronze becomes abundant (Pt. 54): sherds "red on black", jugs with concentric bands noted on the neck, black decoration of wavy band between horizontal bands, handles with rectangular profile in green fabric with black paint.

III°. To the North of the second Mycenaean street.

A/ Industrial zone in the northern part. Immediately to the South of the 1949 area, there is a region characterised by narrow corridors, generally containing much ash and terracotta tuyères, coming no doubt from kilns. The presence of numerous slag indicating that these installations served for a metallurgy of an artisanal type, analogous to that practised at Ugarit.

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