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 29 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 15Scan 29 of 130

The pottery of Trench South I East of the Road

0m to 0m 50 approx.: Down to Floor I: Iron Age: pithoi, jars with flaring neck lamp stands with long handle -

Below Floor I and down to Floor II: 0m 50 to approx. 1m. East room of the street with fine wall: Late Bronze Room of Pt 8: Large pithos with flat rim decorated with zig-zag incisions. spout of red on white slip ware Room of Pt 4: Late Bronze: dark on white slip Sub-Mycenaean - Room of Pt 30: mixed pottery: Late Bronze - Middle Bronze - Mycenaean -

Below Floor II and down to Floor III (?) 1m to 1m 30 and beyond. East room of the street with fine wall: Middle Bronze - Room of Pt 8: Middle Bronze. Room of Pt 4: mixed pottery: Iron Age Late Bronze Mycenaean only a few sherds: Middle Bronze Room of Pt 30: mixed pottery: Late Bronze, Mycenaean - Middle Bronze Tuyère for kiln - Room of Pt 7: fairly mixed: milk bowl, Middle Bronze Tuyère for kiln [illegible]

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

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