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 49 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 26Scan 49 of 130

17/10/55

Pt 50: Baked clay ball inscribed with 4 signs Cypro-Minoan - depth: -1 m. T. Sud 2, on blackish floor, probably Floor II -

Pt 51: Tr Nord 1 depth: -160 Series of 5 weights in stone, pebbles shaped into cubes -

Near Point 48, under the North-South wall. virgin soil reached at -1m40

Tr Nord 1 Above the N-S road at 0m30 from depth, fragment of ivory spindle, engraved with fish scales (drawing) - calcareous inlays.

, written sideways, braced with the 7 lines from "C. 1a" to "sommet": Working hypothesis / to be verified by excavationTr Nord 1, West part of the road: A Floor I appears at 0m60 depth: ashes overlying a light and hard layer The stratigraphy observed on page 23 is completed thus as follows: C. 1a: surface layer C. 1b: Floor I c. 1c: amorphous reddish earth c. 2: Floor II c. 4: Floor III c. 6: Floor IV layer layer 9: Floor V summit

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

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