Notebook·34 CDF art. 128-5·1958

Excavation notebook of Contenson, 11th season, no. 3H. de Contenson

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Handwritten in French. Every line is transcribed and translated, and the English sits beside the scan.

Scan 103 of notebook 34 CDF art. 128-5 (Excavation notebook of Contenson, 11th season, no. 3), handwritten in French. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Collège de France, Paris, 34 CDF art. 128-5, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

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3 cup handles in fine ware (drawing) with painted bands (1 preserved) 4 fragments of bowl handles in (drawing) fine ware, with paint (1 preserved) 25 sherds in buff or chamois ware with decoration of black concentric lines (not preserved) 1 bronze stem (Inv no. 74)

Closed style or transitional pottery RB III second phase - Iron I beginning (end of XIIIe - beginning of XIIe c.)

- Layer 2 Complete form of a carinated bowl (drawing) with straight rim, concentric decoration brown inside and outside, paste beige, dots on the rim (preserved) 2 rims of similar bowls (examples not kept) 1 cup rim with lug (drawing) buff ware, dark brown decoration vertical line on the outside (preserved) 1 fragment of ladle (not retained) 4 fragments of krater handles (drawing) (not kept) 3 krater rims with brown decoration ( (drawing) (pieces not kept) 1 bowl rim with grooves and (drawing) concentric painted decoration (piece not kept) [illegible] (type related to this one) (drawing)

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

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