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 183 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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Continuation of the excavation in the tomb Pt 77-

Pt 81: large fragments of a krater and of a jar in greenish paste with black decoration - crushed under the collapse of the upper parts of the N-S wall - all against the E edge of the substructure in large dressed blocks and at the level of the top of it. Depth: 1.50 Excavation continued between wall and floor to the E of Pt 81, under its position.

Opening of Trench III in B 10, B 11 and B 12 - In the northward extension of Tr II, sector B, the road is reached almost everywhere between 100 and 150, sometimes cut by fadja's - Excavation resumed in the northern half of A 12; in the southern half the rock is reached, but there was no pottery characteristic -

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

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