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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 175 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 87Scan 175 of 204

bowls with grooves below the rim fragments of ladles tools in terracotta, bronze, stone spindle whorl in ivory. Date proposed: late Iron I - 1150-1050.

100 cm: layer 3 to the south, thin reddish layer in the centre, ashy layer and north Material not studied (cf. below *).

110 cm: layer 4 = white floor visible to the south and north - Material not studied

120 cm: virgin soil (kono or rock) -

* Layer II 3 = fine bowls with flaring rim and concentric decoration "submycenaean" Date: early Iron I - 1200-1150 -

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

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