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Notebook·34 CDF art. 128-3·1957

Excavation notebook of Contenson, 10th season, no. 1H. de Contenson

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Handwritten in French. Every line is transcribed and translated, and the English sits beside the scan.

Scan 107 of notebook 34 CDF art. 128-3 (Excavation notebook of Contenson, 10th season, no. 1), handwritten in French. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Collège de France, Paris, 34 CDF art. 128-3, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

Page 53Scan 107 of 206

Sector A10: Ptt 48, above the floor (1.50 to 2.10) ring bases of Iron Age type, jar rim with grooves 1 "wavy line" handle, 1 stump base. (drawing) [illegible] Ptt 38, on the rock: Late Bronze pottery "milk bowl", burnished sherds, sherd with concentric brown decoration

Sector A 11/12: from Ptt 2 (Floor I) (0.35) to 1.25: 1 sherd with concentric black decoration int. exterior 1 weight made from a pebble of basalt (drawing)

from 1.25 to the Floor met at 1.75, where the excavation is stopped: 1 fragment of "milk bowl", 1 sherd with concentric decoration black, interior.

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

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