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 9 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 3Scan 9 of 204

B4 (Region pt 64) - 1.50 to 1.75 (green earth) - Iron Age pottery: basket handle, spout or base of a jar, bowls with concentric circles of black paint, sherds with red decoration, 1 milk bowl sherd, 2 sherds bucchero, 2 sherds probably Mycenaean - 1 cylindrical loom weight in sun-dried clay } not kept 2 spherical basalt hammerstones }

B4 (region pt 64) - 1.75 to 2.00 1 Mycenaean sherd (placed with material from 1.50 to 1.75) -

B5/B6 (region pt 58) - (green earth) - 1.50 to 1.75 - Iron Age pottery: basket handles, strainer with open spout and red decoration bowl fragments, (drawing) sherd "wavy line"

B5/B6 (region pt 58) - 1.75 to 2.00 - Mycenaean sherd, carinated bowls BR. (drawing) bowls with flaring rim (drawing), red on black, red on red MB red lustrous pottery -

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

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