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 39 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 18Scan 39 of 204

B 10 (continued) : Iron Age sherds + 1 handle red on black and a rim of a carinated bowl Late or Middle Bronze.

B 11 : 2 sherds rims bowl "wavy line", 1 handle with incised sign : (drawing)

B 12 : 1 handle fragment milk bowl, 1 bucchero

Material trench C 6

West half : 1.30 - 1.75 : Iron Age pottery handle of basket, cooking pot, bowl, ring base material not very characteristic, not kept. 1.75 - 2.00 : Iron Age pottery bowl (drawing) , base with grooves (drawing) bowls with concentric circles painted in black early Iron Age ; carinated bowl with red slip and wish-bone handle raised ; base of Hellenistic appearance : (drawing) with dark red slip ; Mycenaean handle incised later (drawing) (1) roughly done -

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

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