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 95 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 47Scan 95 of 206

18/10/57 In A 6, continued cleaning of tomb Pt 30; pottery of good quality, fragmentary - 1 large bronze ring: (drawing) - In trench II, in A 2 and A 3, the sounding Point 47 continues; from A 4 to A 12, the excavation has not yet gone beyond the layer superficial. In B 1 / B 3 the cleaning down to the rock continues and seems close to finishing In B 6, at - 1.00, Pt 53: head of a bovid from a vessel in the form of an animal; abundant pottery in the sector. In C 6 / C 7, excavation continued beyond 1.50 In C 4, excavation continued in the angle the West half; Pt 54: group of loom weights in earth unfired baked in the S.-W. angle, at - 2.00 They rest on a floor of lime white - All around, numerous loom weights in green unfired earth, in very poor condition.

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

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