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 159 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 rim of a carinated cup in pottery (drawing) brick red, traces of black decoration (not preserved) | Pottery beginning of Iron Age I (1200-1150) | derived from Mycenaean "close style"

- Layer 2 and 1 2 rims of "wavy lines" bowls (not preserved) 2 handles of similar bowls (not preserved) 2 body fragments of similar bowls (drawing) (not preserved) 1 loom weight (Inv. no. 86)- | End of Iron I (1150-1050)

Trench XXXIX - (see p. 97, 98, 85) - Layer 4 1 rim fragment of "milk bowl" (not preserved) 1 rim of fine-ware cup with (drawing) brown decoration (not preserved) | Isolated sherds RB III found on the rock

The rest of the pottery, found in the well, belongs to "wavy lines" or "bucchero" vessels of which fragments were found in the layers 1 and 2. This material is therefore grouped. In the well, a loom weight in terracotta (Inv no. 102)

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

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