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 109 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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1 fine orange sherd with cream slip concentric decoration, black lustrous (preserved)

Drawing: triangular sherd with hatched bands

1 rim of cup with thick walls, whitish pottery, red painted bands (not preserved)

Drawing: rim profile with horizontal hatched bands

3 coarse sherds with concentric decoration brown (not preserved)

2 cup bases in common ware with spiral painted in brown on the base (not preserved)

bracket and vertical arrow pointing down to "same vase as the base above"Lower part of a jug in greenish pottery, with painted decoration exterior in black (not preserved)

Drawing: lower body and base of a vessel with vertical bands

Mycenaean pottery R B III (XIII s)

Tomb Pt 3 3 jugs of late "bucchero" type (Inv No 7, 9, 12) 1 bronze bowl (Inv No 8), 1 bronze spatula (Inv No 10), 1 steatite cup (Inv No 11) | beginning Iron I (XII s)

Layer ② 1 degenerate "bucchero" base, brick-red pottery with dark red slip (not preserved) 1 cylindrical spout, greenish fabric (drawing) same vase as the base above (not preserved 1 coarse sherd with black concentric decoration (not preserved) small basket handle (not preserved) 1 limestone dish (Inv No 6) | beginning Iron I (1200-1150)

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

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