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 45 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 23Scan 45 of 130

17/10/55
Trench Nord 1 - West Room Route
Stratigraphy according to the visible North section:
0 to - 110 cm: reddish earth, few sherds.c. 1
- 110 cm: black ashes + calcined clay2
- 110 to - 125 cm: amorphous reddish earth3
- 125 cm: ashes especially clear to the West4
- 125 to - 140 cm: amorphous earth5
- 140 cm: hard burnt layer (?)6
- 143 cm: ashes, burnt limestone7
- 148 cm: limestone + gravel8
- 150 to - 190: stones piled up coming
to abut against lower course
East Wall9
- 190: probable rock at part North -
in the central part, layer of
greenish powdery earth10

, written sideways: Granary style (wavy line)Pt 16: ashes - 1 m 30 Pt 22: resting on floor, - 1 m 40 - Pithos Pt 36 - - 1 m 50 (c. 6 - 8) - 150 to - 190, Cypro-Mycenaean krater - c. 9 - 2 m: Head of animal B. R., sherds of milkbowl - Late Bronze - c 10

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

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