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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 151 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 "bucchero" sherd with ribs, good workmanship (not preserved) 15 sherds with parallel line decoration (not preserved) 2 common jugs (Pt 38) (Inv No 189, 190) 1 limestone polisher (Inv No 191) | Pottery early Iron I (1200-1150) | mostly Sub-Mycenaean

- Layer 2 1 bowl rim "wavy lines" (not preserved) 1 bowl body fragment "wavy lines" yellow pottery (not preserved) (drawing) 1 vessel base fragment "bucchero" degenerated into yellowish pottery (not preserved) 1 degenerate "base ring" handle fragment (drawing) (not preserved) | Sherds end of Iron I (1150-1050

- Layer 1 1 bowl rim in beige pottery with (drawing) worn brown decoration (not preserved 1 sherd with brown interior decoration (not preserved) (drawing) 1 quadruped figurine fragment (Inv No 85) | Mixed surface material -

Trench XXXVI comprises a layer in which sherds of the MB III and the RB I are mixed, a layer of the RB II, a layer of the RB III phase final, a layer of the beginning and one of the end of Iron I -

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

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