Notebook·34 CDF art. 128-4·1957–1958

Henri de Contenson excavation notebook, 10th and 11th seasons, no. 2H. de Contenson

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Handwritten in French. Every line is transcribed and translated, and the English sits beside the scan.

Scan 105 of notebook 34 CDF art. 128-4 (Henri de Contenson excavation notebook, 10th and 11th seasons, no. 2), handwritten in French. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Collège de France, Paris, 34 CDF art. 128-4, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

Page 52Scan 105 of 204

Material found to the S.W. of pt 112, from 2.00 (base of the floor) to 2.80 (rock): Mycenaean sherds and Late Bronze: milk bowl, painted pottery; a few burnished sherds in MB tradition.

Material pts 122-125, 1.25 to 1.75: Iron Age: large flat fragment in basalt, large roughed-out fragment, bowls with wide open concentric decoration often black, short spout with black decoration (drawing) a few Late and Middle Bronze fragments from a ladja.

Material Sector B5-B8, Tr III, 1.25 to 1.50: fine Late Bronze pottery, fine, with paste whitish: carinated bowls with horizontal handle bowls with horizontal handle (drawing) tenons (with glaze black and worn) // milk bowl, fine red or black decoration, large jatte with thick rim (Reprise pt 127) (North pt 49)

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

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