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 195 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 97Scan 195 of 204

25/9/58 Trench XXI - (see p. 82) Layer 2, 25 to 60 cm, down to the skeletons: mixed pottery: Iron I (Pt 21) and fragments of Byzantine lamps (see p. 83), medieval glazed sherd.

Trench XXVI - (see p. 79) Pt 15: the skeleton is strongly contracted; it is difficult to know whether the tomb was reduced to a niche cut into the rock or whether this burial was at the entrance of a larger tomb whose ceiling had collapsed - skull to the east; under the skull, bronze bowl (no. 3_).

Trench XXXIX - Stratigraphy: 0 to 60 cm: brown earth: layer 1 60 to 100 cm: reddish earth: layer 2 against the east face, wall - [illegible] at 90 cm, in the northern half, Pt 22: hearth in red brick terracotta - SW corner: pit with plastered walls, visible in section.

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

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