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 41 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 20Scan 41 of 204

Material from old trench and sector D Region Pt 101 - 1.50 to 2.00: Iron Age rim with groove, cooking pot, bowl with ring base, bowl with groove on the rim and red line.

Region Pt 101 - 2.00 to 2.20: Late Bronze: Mycenaean sherd, bowls with everted rim, brown and red or black decoration, very fine

Region South Pt 101, West Pt 92: down to the rock - 1 tenon wavy line, the rest Late Bronze: Mycenaean, milk bowl, base-ring, or Middle Bronze: red on red, red on black, "white painted". 1 biconical spindle whorl incised (drawing)

Region Pt 99 - 0.70 to 1.50: flat fragment of basalt, conical loom weight, Iron Age pottery coarse, sherds painted iron concentric, spout, green pottery with black decoration (drawing) bowl with short foot, concentric red decoration dark (drawing)

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

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