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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 133 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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Trench XXVI – (see p. 79 and 85) – Tomb Pt 15: 1 jar and 1 jug in common ware (Inv no. 57, 58), 1 bronze bowl (Inv. no. 59), 1 ivory disc (Inv no. 180). | beginning of Iron I (XIIe c.)

– Layer 3, pit of tomb Pt 15 Mixed and little usable materials: Mycenaean and sub-Mycenaean sherds, early Iron Age – (not preserved) 2 loom weights (Inv no. 60, 61)

– Tomb Pt 10: Layer 2. 1 common jar (Inv no. 29), [illegible] 1 jug in common ware (Inv no. 31), 1 late "bucchero" jug (Inv no. 30), 1 bronze bowl (Inv no. 28) | beginning of Iron I (XIIe c)

– Layer 1 – bowls with flaring rim "sub-Mycenaean" (not preserved) (drawing) with black decoration | beginning of Iron I (XIIe c)

Trench XXXI – (see p. 86) 1 jug in common ware (Pt 16) (Inv. no. 56) | Iron I

cylindrical spout, white ware with red decoration (drawing) carinated bowl, white ware (drawing) (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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