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 157 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 77Scan 157 of 206

1 krater handle fragment, in pottery fine buff ware, with dark brown decoration (drawing) with flaking surface (conserved) 1 jar sherd in fine cream ware with bands concentric dark brown, covered with small flakes ( not conserved) Sherds worn and damaged by the fire, Mycenaean of LB II - III ; use of the floor -

- Layer 3 1 krater rim in green ware black decoration, of careless workmanship (drawing) (conserved) 1 similar krater rim in beige ware with brown decoration (not conserved) 1 pithos rim, coarse ware whitish with red decoration on the (drawing) flattened rim (not conserved) 1 jug rim, common ware (not conserved) (drawing)

1 rim of carinated cup, ware (drawing) white ( not conserved) 1 cup base in beige ware with black concentric decoration (drawing) (not conserved) 1 base, greenish ware, brown spiral (not conserved) (drawing) 3 bases without decoration (not conserved) Iron Age type (drawing)

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

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