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 15 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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27/9/58 Trench XLI - (v. p. 1) Pt 30: at 1.95 cm, in the centre, in a cavity dug into the rock and surrounded by stones, perhaps a well: seal in black stone: (drawing)

Trench XL (under Pt 19) - (see p. 95) Layer 7 is more or less thick owing to irregularities in the rock, which is reached between 210 and 240 at the extreme south of the trench.

Material of layer 7 = painted pottery with geometric decoration, "red on red", "red on black" black-slipped pottery Date: end of MB III or beginning of RB I.

Trench XXXVIII - (see p. 96) 240 to 250: the white layer reached is a floor and not the rock: layer 6 Beyond 250 cm, layer of brown earth, thin to the north and thickening in a cavity dug into the rock to the south from 250 to 300 cm: layer 7 Below, virgin soil, rock -

In layer 7, pottery rare and in small fragments, apparently identical to that of layer 5. Date: end of MB III or beginning of RB I.

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

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