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 89 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 44Scan 89 of 206

In B7 and B8, under ash earth, thin layer of burnt brown dark matter, then grey burnt earth, at 1.80 above this, painted sherds, c., animal bones, deer antler, Here we have a fire layer -

In C4, excavation of Pt 41 finished, tomb emptied in the course of previous campaigns - Further to the West, excavation of another tomb: Pt 50, also looted. Good fragments of pottery.

At Pt 47, pottery abundant and of fine quality; almost the whole surface of the width trench II in A2 is reached by the poidja which also overflows into A3, where appears a huge empty cavity under 30 to 40 cms of intact red earth. To the North, trench II cuts into an East-West road (road of the sanctuary) -

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

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