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 27 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 12Scan 27 of 204

– Rooms Pt 93, Pt 96, Pt 104, Pt 103: excavation and cleaning continued - – Cleaning in sector D to the East of Pt 103 up to the end of the trench -

B 4. bench between Pt 64 and Pt 34: 1.50 to 1.80: fine greenish earth, then thin 1,80 to 2.00 layer of charcoal and ash [illegible] red earth, with stones, on which the foundations of the fine wall are set to the East - towards 2.00 to ?: greenish earth with charcoal in places, elsewhere earth reddish with limestone -

Well Pt 91: beyond 2,60, pottery rare; around 2.50, large fragment of horn - Fill of greasy greenish earth - Among the fragments removed above 2.60, one sherd belongs to the vessel of Pt 89 - The abandonment of well Pt 91 corresponds

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

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