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 127 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 62Scan 127 of 206

Base of a late "base ring" bowl (drawing) (not preserved) Rim of late "base ring" (not preserved) 1 "bucchero" sherd (not preserved) Fragments of a jar with whitish coating and decoration of parallel red lines (not preserved) Neck of jug with brown decoration (drawing) (not preserved) Pithos with spout near the rim (drawing) (not preserved)

Pottery beginning Iron I (1200-1150

1 bronze punch (Inv no. 20) (Pt 8) 1 bronze spatula (Inv no. 21) (Pt 8) 1 bronze rod (Inv no. 22) (Pt 9) 1 limestone weight (Inv no. 23), 1 marble club-head (Inv no. 24), 2 steatite spindle whorls (Inv nos. 25, 26).

Trench XX therefore seems to present: sherds of the M.B. III on the rock, a layer of the L.B. II-III, with floor, a layer of the end of the L.B. III, a layer of the beginning of Iron I, with varied tools, a surface layer of the end of Iron I, no doubt.

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

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