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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 193 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.

Unnumbered pageScan 193 of 206

(sector D) Material from Trenches South and 9 bis west

Tomb Pt 77: 1 bucchero vessel; neck missing and handle; bucchero fragments; fragments of 1 milk bowl; upper part of a jug with handle high (drawing) fragments of 1 base-ring vessel, of a lamp, of 1 red on red bowl - 1 perforated shell

Pt 75: Late Bronze: Mycenaean and related, 1 milk bowl fragment -

Pt 82: Late Bronze: milk bowl, fragments II-III large krater with brown decoration -

Additional note on Pt 84 (bulla)

The bulla lies in the layer of green earth, which covers the western half of sector B, passing under the walls of the upper level which rest on its top - The layer is well dated by the pottery of the beginning of the Iron Age.

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

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