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 181 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.

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Trench XXXVI - Stratigraphy: 0 to 40 cm: surface layer = layer 1 40 cm: in the central part of the trench, E.-W. road to the north and south, layer of earth brown, with stones to the north: layer 2 90 cm: layer of ashy earth: layer 3 - To the North, top of a wall then at 115, white floor - To the South, top of a wall running along the road, numerous charcoal in the layer - at 140 cm, layer of clayey earth: layer 4 at 175 cm, numerous stones and slag -

Material: layers 1 and 2: fine Iron I pottery - 1150-1050 bowl "wavy line", "bucchero". Layers 3 and 4: early Iron I pottery - 1200-1150 Sub-Mycenaean pottery -

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

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