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 189 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 94Scan 189 of 206

A8/A9. Pts 69/70: fragments of "wavy line" bowls tês or painted, linear decoration _

A11 - Pt 76: Iron Age pottery: base, handle of cooking pot, bowl with inturned rim, decoration of lines concentric red (not preserved) -

B1/B2, South half (region Pt 71): 2.00 to 2.30: (from the white floor to the rock): Late Bronze: Mycenaean, base-ring, painted pottery; Middle Bronze: red on black, black-slipped.

B3, South half, 1.50 to 2.00: beginning of Iron Age or Late Bronze: sherds close style, Mycenaean; Late Bronze bowl with flaring rim (drawing)

Middle Bronze: red on black and red on red.

B4 Region Pt 64 - 1.25 to 1.50 (brown earth) Abundant Iron Age pottery; strainer spout, late bucchero, handle (drawing); sherds of Mycenaean appearance: linear decoration:

Drawing: two decorated pottery sherds, one with concentric arcs, the other with chevrons and hook motifs

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

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