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 161 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 neck of a jug, "bucchero", of good workmanship in well-fired brown pottery with black slip, and numerous fragments of the body (not preserved) 1 base of a jug, "bucchero", of good workmanship in fine cream pottery with black slip (not preserved) 1 fragment of jar in coarse pottery cream, with brown decoration, worked on the wheel, decoration careless (not preserved) (drawing) 1 base of cup with decoration of lines concentric brown (not preserved) (drawing) 1 neck of jug with black decoration (drawing) interior, black slip exterior (not preserved) 1 handle of jug with red decoration interior of rim (not preserved) (drawing) 1 handle similar, with black slip (not preserved) 1 rim of bowl in coarse pottery with black slip exterior (not preserved) (drawing) 1 rim of carinated bowl, yellow pottery (not preserved) (drawing) 1 rim of "wavy lines" bowl, fine and thin, large, with red decoration (not preserved) 1 sherd of large "wavy lines" bowl with black decoration, lower part (not preserved) (drawing) 8 rims of medium-sized "wavy lines" bowls with black decoration (not preserved) 1 spindle whorl in steatite (Pt 22) (Inv no. 67), 1 spindle whorl in ivory (Inv no. 87). | Iron I (1200-1050)

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

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