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 5 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 2Scan 5 of 206

B2, East limit, 1m50 South trench edge: East-West block top flush with surface

Drawing: horizontal line with a hatched oblong block below it

Material from 0 to -0.25 recovered

Areas A and B, beyond -0.25: reddish, fairly granular earth

Area A: appearance of wall tops - between A1 and A2 - between A5 and A6, approx.t - between A7 and A8, "

Area B: architecture in area B6

Pt 1: Area A7, -0.30, against South edge of trench Base of large jar, overturned; below it, at -0.50 appear bones, fragments of human skull

Drawing: profile of an inverted vessel base over a rounded shape, and a top-down view of concentric circles against a horizontal line

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

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