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 7 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 4Scan 7 of 130

10/10/55(continued) - T. S. I

Throughout the zone of 2 m2 around the point 4, under the ashes, paving of small pebbles grey and ochre burnt earth.

No. 1: Bovid horn in the N.-W. hall of the large building -

the base of jar 8 lies at 0 m 25 (-1,00) below the top of the North wall against which it was leaning; it is embedded in a very hard lime conglomerate Fragments of bronze and slag in the jar -

No. 10: Black steatite spindle whorl (drawing) 0 m 50 depth

No. 11: Carved ivory fragment: part of wing and tail of a sphinx - found very near No. 9, above the green layer 5 -

No. 12: Bead (drawing) - Tr N I polished black stone - under 2nd floor - T. S I

No. 13: Bowl with concentric red circles on white ground inside, found not far from No. 2, at 1 m 5 depth Transitional period from Late Bronze to Iron -

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

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