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 167 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 82Scan 167 of 206

1 rim of carinated cup in pottery (drawing) brick-red, with wine-dark decoration (not preserved) 1 rim of similar cup (not preserved) 5 sherds belonging to bases of cups or of bowls with concentric black decoration (not preserved) 1 flaring rim of bowl with black decoration (not preserved) 1 base of cup, beige pottery (drawing) with red circle at the base (not preserved) 1 base of jug neck in chamois pottery with (drawing) white slip with bright red decoration (not preserved) 1 rim of bowl, convex (drawing) in soft beige pottery, with embryonic handle (?) (not preserved) 1 rim of large jar in pottery (drawing) greenish, with black decoration, very flaring (not preserved) 1 degenerate "bucchero" sherd (drawing) (not preserved) 1 ear and horn fragment of a figurine of bovid (not preserved) 1 body and 1 mutilated head of bull figurine (Inv no. 90 and 91), 1 basalt dish (Inv no. 89), 1 bronze javelin point (Pt 19) (Inv no. 88)

Pottery of beginning Iron I (1150-1100)
1200-1150
primitive "wavy lines" style on
sub-Mycenaean forms

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

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