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 191 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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B5/B6 - Region Pt 58 - 100 to 150: pottery of the Iron Age (not preserved).

B6 - West Region Pt 84 - 2.00 to 2.30: LB 2 Mycenaean sherds: 1 rim of carinated bowl, with small handle

Drawing: profile of a rim with wavy lines

B6. West Region Pt 84 - 2.30 to 2.60 - Abundant MB pottery: red on black, red on red, black-slipped, black decoration

B9, 2.00 to 2.50 (rock) - (South Region Pt 80) Iron Age: fragments of ladle, candlesticks (may be lamps) - Late Bronze: milk bowl, carinated bowls, Mycenaean sherds / MB probably -

Drawing: painted decoration motif with vertical lines, wavy lines and lozenges

bowl in black pottery

Drawing: profile of a carinated vessel wall and front view of a pierced lug handle

B9. Pt 80: MB: red on black (small sherds) -

B10/B12 - Region Pt 43 - 2.30 to 2.60: sherds with red decoration Late Bronze, sherd red on black -

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

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