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 125 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 61Scan 125 of 206

- Layer 4 Rim of large bowl in beige pottery with brown paint (preserved)

Drawing: sherd with painted bands, concentric arcs and wavy line

Rim of krater in yellowish pottery friable, with traces of brown decoration (preserved)

Drawing: rim profile and decorated sherd with spirals and vertical lines

Rim of flaring bowl, cream pottery red decoration (preserved)

Drawing: rim profile with horizontal bands

Similar rim (not preserved) Rim of flaring bowl with black slip (preserved) Rim of base-ring bowl (not preserved) 2 base-ring sherds (not preserved)

Drawing: carinated rim profile

Rim of carinated bowl, beige pottery (not preserved)

Drawing: carinated rim profile

Mycenaean pottery, "close style", of the end of LB III (1225-1200)

* to be added to layer 5: 2 Mycenaean sherds with black decoration (preserved)

Drawing: two painted sherds

- Layer 3 1 rim of bowl in cream pottery with brown decoration (not preserved)

Drawing: rim profile with horizontal bands

1 rim of bowl with white slip and red decoration, also flaring very worn (not preserved)

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

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