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 179 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 89Scan 179 of 204

90 to 112 cm: burnt reddish-brown earth homogeneous: layer 5 112 to 150 cm: grey ashes layer 6 150 to 180 cm: greenish clayey earth or greyish: layer 7 (in a channel; elsewhere, white floor)

The trench is divided into ends by a wall E-W To the South, the floors are not marked and one passes directly from layer 2 to layer 6.

Material: layers 1 and 2: fairly abundant pottery bowls with flattened base (drawing) and carinated fragment of ladle Date: end of Iron I. 1150-1050 Layers 6 and 7: bowls and jars painted in white pottery with red decoration sub-Mycenaean. Date: beginning of 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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