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 201 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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which seems to be rock to the North and to the South, a floor; at the SW corner, the brown earth continues, and le sol s'interrompt autour d'une grande jar pithos in situ: layer 4 Excavation provisionally stopped at 160 cm -

Finds - Layer 2 (see p. 95): "wavy line" bowls at the centre east, pocket filled with Iron I material descending into layer 3 bowls, jars, "bucchero", a quadruped in terracotta. At 1.00 m depth, dish in basalt in two fragments.

Layer 3: pottery fairly abundant. "milk bowl" painted pottery with concentric decoration 1 sherd of pot imported of the Kamares type Proposed date: LB II - 1450-1350

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

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