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 135 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 66Scan 135 of 206

Trench XXXV - (see p. 88, 89) - Layer 6 1 Bowl rim in fine pottery with decoration very faded red (kept)

Drawing: rim sherd with painted bands and profile

1 sherd of fine pottery with cream slip with two parallel dark brown painted bands (kept) Sherds early LB III, isolated on the rock -

2 sherds of a krater in pottery fine cream, with dark brown decoration wine-coloured, covering all the lower part of the vessel, inside and outside (kept)

Drawing: two decorated sherds with horizontal bands and geometric motifs, with profiles

1 worn sherd of yellowish pottery and brown decoration (kept)

Drawing: diamond-shaped sherd with painted bands

1 jar sherd in coarse pottery greenish white with black decoration (not kept)

Drawing: sherd with a horizontal band

7 jar sherds in similar pottery with parallel black or red lines (not kept) Fragments of a jar in similar pottery with brown decoration (not kept)

Drawing: sherd with painted motif

Fragment of a strainer spout in pottery greenish with white slip and dark red decoration (kept)

Drawing: strainer spout fragment with holes

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

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