Notebook·34 CDF art. 128-1·1955

Excavation notebook of Contenson, 9th seasonH. de Contenson

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

Scan 113 of notebook 34 CDF art. 128-1 (Excavation notebook of Contenson, 9th season), handwritten in French. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Collège de France, Paris, 34 CDF art. 128-1, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

Page 60Scan 113 of 130

Area of Pt 3:

Depth: 1 m 50 - Late Bronze: rare fragments of "milk bowl" vessels of hard hand-made pottery of dark colour

- Middle Bronze: "red on black", "red on red" black painted pottery on greenish light ground with straight and wavy lines brown-red painted pottery with ladder pattern slightly burnished pottery (lamp) 1 bichrome sherd (black-red-black) (drawing)

Area of Pt 7

Depth 1 m 20 to 1 m 50 / 1,25 - Mixed pottery Above a white floor -

Late: Large bowl in greenish white fabric

Drawing: profile of a vessel rim and wall] associated with a tuyère

for a heating installation -

Burnished sherd with red slip of Hellenistic appearance

Iron: Bowl with concentric circles, red inside (drawing) and inturned rim Late and Middle Bronze: a few fragments -

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

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