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 125 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 62Scan 125 of 206

Study of material, Sector C (West)

Square K 31, old excavation: - 1.00 to 2.25: 1 coarse base Iron Age | not preserved 1 greenish sherd with brown line | - Pt 45 (2.25) and beyond (2.25/2.50): 2 Mycenaean sherds, 1 horizontal handle Late Bronze, 1 "red on black" sherd on the inside "red on red" on the outside, fine bowl rim of Mycenaean period -

Sector C 7/C 6, West of Pt 45 - - 1.00 to 1.50: Painted sherds early Iron Age: broad bands on basin with rim

Drawing: rim profile of a vessel, hatched; labels: none

Sherd with white slip and brown decoration depicting an animal

Drawing: sherd with curved hatched bands; labels: none

Bowl base almost Mycenaean in style vessel base with g spout, taken from the base, type Iron Age. sherd

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

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