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 141 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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1 handle at the rim of a carinated cup in fine burnished pottery (not preserved)

Drawing: profile and front view of a vessel rim and handle

1 cooking pot rim in black pottery (not preserved)

Drawing: two views of a sherd with a lug or handle

1 fragment of dish or lid in black pottery on the upper face, red on the lower face (not preserved)

Drawing: cross-section of a flat rim sherd

1 cup rim in beige pottery (not preserved)

Drawing: profile of a rim sherd

1 lug in beige pottery with black decoration (not preserved)

Drawing: pointed lug with painted lines

1 cup sherd with concentric burnish in beige pottery 4 sherds with black slip (not preserved) 8 sherds with red lustrous slip (not preserved) 2 sherds with lustrous ochre slip (not preserved)

1 spout fragment in lustrous beige pottery (not preserved)

Drawing: cross-section of a spout

1 very thin bowl rim in beige pottery (Pottery MB III or RB I

Drawing: profile of a thin rim

1 very fine "base ring" bowl rim (not preserved)

Drawing: profile of a carinated bowl

1 very fine "base ring" bowl rim (not preserved)

Drawing: profile of a rim

1 handle fragment of a similar "base ring" bowl (not preserved)

Drawing: wishbone handle

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

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