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 111 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.

Unnumbered pageScan 111 of 204

Stamp: 55

Material from trench III, B1 - B4 0.50 to 1.00: small fragments of classic "wavy line" bowls - similar to those found in B5 - B6 (not kept)

B5 - B8, South half, 1.50 to 2.00: fine pottery of the Late Bronze: kraters, fine flared bowls, red, brown or fine black decoration; post-Mycenaean period Material grouped with that found between 1.25 and 1.50 (Region North Pt 49)

Material Tr South. Sector Pts 125-128, 1.00 to 1.60 Iron Age: fragments of ladle, hemispherical bowls with thin rim, bucchero fragment of bowl, early Iron: handle with seal impression (drawing) bucchero, basket handle, + Late Mycenaean sherds coming without doubt from one of the dadjars of the sector.

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

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