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 17 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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Trench XLI - (cf. p. 1) Pt 25: probably pottery kiln ceiling of coarse bricks, layer of ash, with a stone mortar, sherds accumulated from common jugs of Iron I. Pt 30: shaft: near the seal, half of a bone stylus, some Iron I sherds; excavation stopped.

Trench XLVI (see p. 3). Layer 4: greenish-white clayey floor between 130 and 140 cm in the north, 140 and 150 cm in the centre Layer 5 = fine greenish earth, with walls of a primitive architectural phase: 140 to 180 cm - * Layer 6 = white clayey floor, resting directly on the virgin soil 180 cm - Virgin soil (konnos) at 190 cm in the centre and 210 at the extreme north.

Material of the lower layers: 5 and 6 degenerate Mycenaean painted pottery one "milk bowl" fragment Date: end of LB III or beginning of Iron I.

* at 150 cm, under Pt 28: foot legs of a skeleton -

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

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