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 81 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 40Scan 81 of 204

Pt 124: at a depth of 2,30, horizontal layer of pulverulent limestone, with few sherds - pt 124 is a large pit entirely filled with brown earth, with MB sherds abundant, small in size, and bones of sheep . the floor of the Late Bronze, laid on the rock at pts 115 / 116 continues horizontally, masking this pit which has remained as witness to the installations of the Middle Bronze -

Pt 125: lower part of a large jar, at c. 5 m east of Pt 122 .

To the East at pt 125, the only material found between 0 and 0,50 comes from a pado (mixture of Iron, Late Bronze, Middle Bronze) and was not kept, the Late Bronze predominates, the Mycenaean sherds are kept -

Pt 126 = tomb to which belong Pts 119 and 121 -

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

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