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 131 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 64Scan 131 of 206

- Layer 3, Pt 21. 1 hematite seal (Inv No 62), 1 spindle whorl in steatite (Inv No 63) | Iron Age I 1 cup in glazed pottery with oriental decoration (Inv No 64) (drawing)

Medieval period

- Layer 2 1 bowl rim in yellowish pottery (drawing) (kept) | Hellenistic (?) 1 fragment of lamp, red pottery (drawing) (kept) | Roman period (?) 1 fragment of lamp, whitish pottery (drawing) 2 fluted sherds, 1 chamois, 1 with white slip (kept) | Byzantine period (?) 1 base of a glazed cup of green tint (kept) | Byzantine or medieval

Trench XXV. (see p. 84) 1 handle fragment with double roll (not kept) (drawing) 1 very worn Mycenaean sherd (not kept) 1 bowl rim in yellow Hellenistic pottery (not kept) (drawing) 1 Byzantine fluted sherd (not kept) 3 statuette fragments (Inv No 79, 80, 81), Hellenistic (?) 1 clay loom weight, Iron Age (Inv No 82).

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

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