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 171 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 85Scan 171 of 204

Trench VI Pt 14: a little south of Pt 13, at 70 cm, bronze arrowhead.

Stratigraphy in its present state 0 to 30 cm: greyish earth: layer 1 beyond 30 cm: ashy earth to the South, brown elsewhere: layer 2

Material: 1 medieval glazed sherd Layer 1: abundant pottery end Iron I with abundant "wavy lines" bowls. Layer 2: not yet studied, pts 13 and 14; architecture.

Trench XXVI (see p. 79) 50 to 140 cm below burial Pt 10, cavity cut into the rock, which is the dromos of a tomb of which one can see the closure: Pt 15. In the fill (layer 3), Iron I sherds.

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

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