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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 157 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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B8/B9 - Pt 49 Region - 210 to 230 - Middle Bronze pottery: red on black, red on red, lustrous, with a coat of brown ; bowl rim with lug (drawing) Late Bronze: 1 Mycenaean sherd, a few painted sherds -

C6/C7 - Region Pt 45 - 1.50 to 2.00 (from floor IV to floor V) Iron Age and Late Bronze pottery mixed - One sherd is quite remarkable whitish patina with red dark decoration: "close style" (drawing)

C4. Pt 56 (formerly excavated tomb): milk bowl, base ring, Mycenaean, large bowl with flaring rim, white coating and red decoration, sherd red on black degenerate: beginning of Late Bronze -

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

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