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 195 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 97Scan 195 of 206

24/10/57 Tr I: continuation of excavation of East room Pt 32 (tomb). Tr II: A 7 } excavation continued beyond 2.00- A 11 } cleaning on rock A 12: excavation of North half (heaped stones) B1-B2, North half: excavation beyond 1.50- B3: excavation beyond the floor met at 2.00/2.10 Tr I, B4 (Pt 84): excavation continued beyond 2.00 Tr II, B4: excavation provisionally stopped at 1.75 B5/B6: excavation continued beyond 1.75 B7, excavation resumed North half beyond 1.00 C6, East half: excavation continued beyond 1.25 C4: excavation resumed in tomb Pt 56. Tr III, B8-B12: excavation continued between 0 and 0.50

Pt 87: fragment of animal head in painted terracotta, painted sherds R.B. and M.B., to the South of sector A8, Tr I, in old excavation; 2.10- in old excavation

Pt 88: 2 bronze arrowheads in laurel-leaf shape. Tr III, B 11, 0.30-

Drawing: outline of a leaf-shaped arrowhead

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

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