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 5 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 3Scan 5 of 130

10/10/55Trench S. I

No.^ 6: bone stylus complete, broken in two and fragment of a second. - found at the level of the first floor, 6 m to the East of the large building.

No.^ 7 Pebble hammered at one two end, having served as a hammerstone or weight - between the two rubble walls -

Opening of trench North I, north of the 1949 trench-

Trench South I No.^ 8: Large pithos with horizontal handle fixed obliquely, wide rim with incisions.

Drawing: curved band with incised zigzag pattern] crushed in situ against the

north wall of the large building. Depth: 1 m - Resting on a floor which corresponded to the second floor (layer 4) in the large West hall: red earth with white dots. A pithos of the same type, very fragmentary was found at the same level in the large West hall - In this hall, under the ashes (layer 4), layer 5: very compact greenish earth -

Over almost nearly the whole length of the trench, at 1 m depth: ashes and greenish earth.

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

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