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 43 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 21Scan 43 of 204

fragments of bowl with white slip and decor dark red of spirals (close style) spiral at the interior of the base. Beginning of Iron Age.

Drawing: profile of a vessel base, profile of a rim and wall, and painted spiral and diamond decoration

Region Pt 99 - 1.50 to 2.00: End Late Bronze or transition: large bowls "wavy line" with brown decor. (drawing) Late Bronze: Mycenaean sherds, decor concentric bright red, Base-ring. sherd milk bowl (burnt), base jug in rude pottery, (drawing) carinated bowl with small horizontal handle (drawing)

Region Pt 97. From Pt 97 (1.50) to Pt 98 (2.00): Iron Age pottery painted: bowls pithos with black decor (not preserved) (drawing) Region Pt 97. Below Pt 98 (2.00) down to the rock, in the part south of Pts 97 - 98: padja Late Bronze (milk bowl, base ring

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

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