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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 123 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.

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Extension of Tr II: Road reached at A1 and A2 elsewhere, it is destroyed by the padja that continue all along the trench, the road appears [illegible] in the section to the W., at A10/A12. Level 100 reached. The excavation is resumed over the whole width of trench II.

At Ptt 59 (A6), abundant Recent Bronze pottery, so it is indeed a padja. Elsewhere, the Iron Age material is predominant.

Ptt 60: tomb probably excavated formerly, at C3, against the edge W. of the trench; in the dromos, numerous fragments of a bronze object bichrome sherds, red on black and others Middle Bronze-

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

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