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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 119 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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Sub-Mycenaean pottery, L.B. III second phase, to Iron I first phase

The whole of layer ② is L.B. III -

Trench XVII - - Layer ② , pt 6 Rim of "spindle bottle" (not preserved) Bowl handle "base ring" (not preserved) Sherd in fine cream fabric with Mycenaean decoration (drawing) of concentric brown lines (not preserved) | L.B. II sherds (1450-1350)

- Layer ① Krater rim with traces of decoration in dark black; fine pottery soft and yellowish (not preserved) (drawing) Bowl fragments in cream pottery with black decoration (not preserved) Rim of carinated bowl, fine pottery (not preserved) (drawing) Handle in fine pottery (not preserved) | Sub-Mycenaean sherds L.B. III second | phase (XIII s)

Bowl fragments "wavy lines" (not preserved) Cup base with concentric red decoration (not preserved) Rim of cup with lug flattened rim (not preserved) (drawing)

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

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