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 123 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 65Scan 123 of 130

Depth: 0m 80 to 1m Sector of Pt 62: Virgin soil reached at 1m 10. Late Bronze: milk bowls, hand-made ware. 2 Mycenaean sherds base-ring ware. Middle Bronze: Bowl with black painted decoration on light interior, thick handle at the rim. Red on black. Handle with rectangular profile and painting black on light base Sherds with relief band (drawing) either covered with incisions parallel or cross-hatched (drawing) or indented.

[illegible] Sector of Pt 73: Iron sherds painted with concentric circles bucchero, characteristic handles. carinated bowls, cooking pots - Probable existence of a floor of the Iron Age between 0 m 80 and 1m.

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

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