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 173 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 fragment of large bowl rim (drawing) similar, in green pottery with black decoration exterior and black interior slip (not preserved)

1 bowl sherd in fine buff pottery (drawing) with black interior slip and dark red exterior decoration (not preserved)

3 sherds of a bowl in buff pottery with dark red slip on both 2 faces (not preserved)

1 fine sherd with red exterior slip and black interior (not preserved)

1 thick sherd in cream pottery with (drawing) brown decoration (not preserved)

1 jug handle in cream pottery (drawing) with black decoration (not preserved)

1 jug base in beige pottery (drawing) wheel-made (not preserved)

10 sherds in fairly fine fabric (not preserved)

1 jar handle with incised sign + (Inv no. 222) 1 bronze rod (Inv no. 218) 1 iron tool fragment (Inv no. 219) 1 steatite seal (Inv no. 86) (Pt 30) 1 stylus fragment (Inv no. 97) (Pt 30)

Pottery beginning Iron I (1200-1150) or rather intermediate Iron I (1150-1100): [illegible] the cup 220 is of sub-Mycenaean shape, the bowl 221 is of "wavy lines" type early, finer than the following.

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

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