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 41 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 21Scan 41 of 130

15/10/55 Trench Sud 2-

Portion Est: nothing to report. Portion Ouest, opposite the halls of Pts 4 and 8.

- 0 m to 0 m 50: no sherds, a drum of column set obliquely reddish earth disturbed by ploughing. - 0 m 50: upper part of the fine wall in the SE corner of the trench, bed of stones under which there are fragments of a pithos with thick wall-

Trench Sud 1 - Ouest Route: dismantling of the white floor corresponding to floor 2 east of the Road, floor pierced by numerous pits

Trench Nord 1 - Ouest Route: Layer of greenish powdery earth appears at - 2 m depth -

Pt 41 sector West road Trench Sud 1 White floor, depth - 1 m 20 Bronze pin, bent (drawing)

Pt 42 = bronze spearhead, with socket and midrib Tr Sud 1 broken by the workman (drawing) depth: 1 m 20 On Floor II

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

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