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 163 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 80Scan 163 of 206

Trench XL - (see p. 95 and 4) - Layer 7 1 cup rim in white pottery (drawing) with black decoration (preserved) 1 sherd in cream pottery with (drawing) black decoration (preserved) 2 sherds "red on black" on the interior, (not preserved) "red on red" on the exterior 1 handle fragment in pottery (drawing) light beige with black slip (non preserved) 1 bowl rim with "red on black" decoration on the interior and irregular burnishing on the 2 faces (not preserved) 1 fragment of spout at the rim of a bowl with black slip (not preserved) 1 jug rim with dark red slip burnished (not preserved) 1 fragment of spout in buff pottery with dark red paint. (not preserved) 1 very fired and thin sherd in beige pottery with bl "red on black" coarse decoration on the exterior (not preserved) 1 cup handle in fine pottery with brown slip on interior and exterior (not preserved) 1 cup rim in fine beige pottery (drawing) light, hand-worked, and decorated painted red-brown on the exterior (matt) (checkerboard motif) (preserved) | Sherds MB III or 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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