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 61 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 30Scan 61 of 204

Pt 102 (Vadja): Iron Age handles (not preserved) sherd with dark red decoration of lines parallel, of a Cypro-Mycenaean nature, handles with black decoration, perhaps Late Bronze, large bowl almost complete, end of Late Bronze or beginning of Iron.

Southern trench Tomb under Pt 99, below 2 00: Late Bronze: painted sherds, bucchero base, large fragment of whitish carinated bowl

Drawing: profile of a vessel rim and handle

Cavity under Pt 106: 1 chip milk bowl, all the other sherds M.C.: red on red, red on black lustrous, painted white black on red

Drawing: two decorative motifs of parallel horizontal lines, hatched bands, and wavy lines

Region Pt 93: from the point to the rock: mixed material final Late Bronze and Iron Age - including a fragment of ladle.

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

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