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 73 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 36Scan 73 of 204

Material Tr III, 2.00 to 2.50: B9/B10: Final Mycenaean pottery "close style" and Classical Mycenaean, Late Cypriot pottery milk bowl, reticulated pottery. including fragments of small globular jars with small horizontal handle and decoration

Drawing: three geometric painted motifs with vertical bars, cross-hatching and scales

B11: Late Mycenaean pottery:

Drawing: two painted sherds, one with hatched band, one with an eye and spirals

bowls with flaring rim, concentric decoration (except Ptt 111) (drawing)

Region Ptt 95 1.00 to 1.50: sherds Iron Age not very characteristic, not kept

Pt 117: in the dromos, large pithos Iron Age (not kept), in the hall, mixed pottery Iron, Late Bronze and Middle Bronze -

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

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