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 117 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 58Scan 117 of 206

- Below Pt 37, 100 to 150 (grey ashy earth) 1 bowl with small handle, black decoration on whitish pottery (drawing) base, red pottery, dark red spiral interior, white slip exterior. – Pt 43 - 1.75 to 1.90: wavy line - Below Pt 43, 190 to 230/210 1 sherd Close style, 2 sherds Base-ring, 1 sherd of Post-Mycenaean bowl, 2 bichrome sherds on thick pots, 1 handle derived from the "wish bone" (drawing) horizontal, round section: 1 krater fragment:

Drawing: profile of a rim on the left and decorated sherd with hatched bands and chevrons on the right

Several painted sherds of the same period. ________

The analysis of the material therefore allows us to identify beneath the mass of Iron, a thin layer of the Late Bronze in places on the rock.

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

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