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 123 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 basalt grinder (Inv No 15), 1 granite pestle (Inv No 16) 1 basalt pestle (Inv No 17), 1 sling bullet (Inv No 18) | Fine pottery Iron I (XI^th)

Three periods are represented in trench XVII the LB III, the transition from LB to Iron I and the end of Iron I .

Trench XVIII . 1 clay loom weight (Inv No 19) 1 neck of a multicoloured glass flask (Inv No 78)

Trench XX - - Layer 6 1 rim of a "red on black" bowl 1 sherd "red on black" (not kept) 1 handle with red slip (not kept) 1 sherd of fine well-fired pottery with slip yellow, dark red decoration (handmade)

1 sherd of gritty beige pottery with dark red decoration

Drawing: Rim profile, handle section, and two decorated sherds

1 sherd "red on red" (not kept)
Sherds MB III (XVII^th) .

- Layer 5 1 fragment with lustrous brown paint 1 fragment with flaking black paint | Mycenaean sherds LB II - III, on floor .

Drawing: Two decorated sherds; labels: X

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

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