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 11 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.

Page 4Scan 11 of 206

Trench XL. (under Pt 19) (see p. 95) c. 170 to 180: white floor: layer 4 180 to 200 cm: brown earth: layer 5 200 to 210 cm: white floor: layer 6 210 to 225 cm: brown earth: layer 7 225 cm: virgin soil (rock).

the undecorated Mycenaean-type pithos is standing on the rock; it passes through both floors (layers 4 and 6). layers 4 to 6 yielded few sherds, but all L.B., probably phase II; 1 small finely polished stone pestle.

Trench XLII. (see p. 2) Part west of the road: the fine greenish earth (layer 3) continues down to the rock, met at at 210 cm - layers 4 to 6 do not exist in this part - Layer 3 bis: immediately above the rock, one meets a few sherds scattered L.B. ([illegible] "milk bowl", doubtful fragment, "base ring") and with black glaze (M.B. III or L.B. I).

Part east of the road: 200-240: stones (layer 6 240 cm: rock except in the centre where opens a cavity in the rock, filled with earth

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

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