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 21 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 9Scan 21 of 204

- 2.10 to ?: brown earth filling a hollow in the rock and (drawing) a shaft opening into this hollow; excavation stopped at 2,50 - Abundant pottery: Late Bronze: Mycenaean sherds, carinated bowls with small horizontal handle, bowls with flaring rim and thin wall, 1 handle and 1 sherd of milk bowl, fragment of a large bowl with flaring rim, interior decoration red dark: (drawing) and concentric lines

Pt 84 (B5) Tr Z 1 / green earth): Iron Age: fragments of bowl with black concentric decoration several sherds of same period not kept 2 coarse loom weights damaged by fire 1 steatite fragment (drawing) incised

Below Pt 84 - 2.00 to rock (2.30 to 2.50) Pottery with concentric decoration, end of early Iron - Late Bronze: carinated bowl, "wavy line" bowls, large horizontal handle, 1 base-ring, 1 lustrous of MB appearance, 1 black flint flake.

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

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