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 169 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 84Scan 169 of 204

Trench VI - (see p. 85) Pt 13: in the middle of the West edge, 40 cm: bronze adze -

Trench XXV Stratigraphy 0 to 60 cm: surface grey earth: layer 1 60 cm: virgin soil (rock), except in the N.W. corner, where there is from 60 to 100 cm, a layer of brown earth: layer 2 resting on the rock -

Material: All the pottery seems to belong to the Iron I and has been grouped - double handles (drawing) bowls "wavy lines" fragments of terracotta statuettes of indeterminate date - ring bases 1 terracotta spindle whorl -

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

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