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 29 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 14Scan 29 of 206

B 1: engraved ivory plaque; - 1.25. Pt 24

Drawing: rectangular plaque with spiral motifs and dotted circles

Below Pt 20, a soakaway whose top is at - 1.40; diam: 0.60. To the South, a channel joins it.

In sector C, the excavation had been started at about 0.75.

In the East half of Sector A, at from 1.25, approximate level of floor II, earth greener.

Material from 1.25 to 1.50 recovered; excavation stopped at about 1.50 in sectors A and B and at about 2.00 in sector C, where the material between 1.50 and 2.00 is recovered also.

In A and B, at many points there appear the large blocks of the lower architecture -

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

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