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 13 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 5Scan 13 of 204

Material from old excavation

C 6, west half, 0.50 to 1.30: Iron Age pottery rounded base (stump), cooking pots, bowls with ring base, bases with cup-shaped hollow, fragment of ladle. Animal bones

Pt 83: 2 Mycenaean sherds

Pt 87: fragment of animal-head vessel - damaged by fire, chip of milk bowl, fragments of jug in grey fabric, Mycenaean sherd, Red on Black sherd, rim of M.B. jatte with vertical handle black-slipped on the outside and decoration black on the inside

Drawing: profile of a vessel rim with loop handle and geometric decoration

Sector B

B 3 (east area, Pt 64): 2.00 to 2.30: 1 painted Mycenaean sherd (drawing) 1 bowl rim with brown decoration M.B., 1 Red Polished sherd 1 neck of oenochoe R.B. Material found between 1.50 and the (2.30) fissured rock.

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

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