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 179 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 88Scan 179 of 206

1 fragment stirrup jar in white pottery (drawing) greenish with black decoration (kept) - 1 fragment handle of cup in pottery (drawing) pinkish with red decoration - (kept).

1 fragment of coarse yellowish pottery (drawing) with relief decoration - (kept).

1 fragment neck of jug with yellow slip (drawing) and red brick pottery (not kept) - 1 rim of vessel in fine cream pottery (drawing) with lustrous red slip on both 2 faces (kept).

Numerous jars (as in the (drawing) layer 4 and the upper layer of 3) wheel-made, in well-fired pottery ogival or slightly pointed base

Drawing: pointed base profile] reinforced [sketch: thickened pointed base profile

Jar handle of this type with impression (drawing) at the upper part (Inv No 216) Jar handle with identical impression but hardly legible owing to smudges - (not kept) Jar handle with incised sign (Inv no. 217) (drawing) Jar handle with incised sign (Inv no. 224) (drawing) Jar handle with finger impression and 9 notches (Inv no. 225) 7 handles with 1 or 2 incised lines (not kept).

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

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