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 183 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 small jug with cylindrical spout, in chamois pottery with black decoration - (Pt 35) (Inv No 182) 1 weight (Inv No 183), 1 loom weight (Inv No 184), 1 bronze point (Inv No 185) (Pt 36) 1 steatite spindle whorl (Pt 36) (Inv No 186), 1 seal (Inv No 187) (Pt 37) 1 bone stopper (Pt 38) (Inv No 188) - | Fine pottery Iron I (1100-1050)

Trench XLII - (see p. 2) - Layers 5 and 6 1 rim of bowl "milk bowl" (not preserved) 1 fragment of bowl "milk bowl" (not preserved) 1 base of jug in fine beige pottery with lustrous red decoration (not preserved) 1 sherd of the same vessel (not preserved) 1 sherd in chamois pottery with bichrome decoration in dark red and black (not preserved) 1 sherd of large vessel in beige pottery fine with shiny black decoration (not preserved) 1 burnt grey sherd with slip white with brown decoration (not preserved)

Drawing: five small drawings of pottery sherds and profiles along the right margin, with painted bands, hatching and cross-hatching

2 sherds in orange pottery with concentric shiny red bands (not preserved) 2 sherds of jugs with parallel brown decoration on greenish pottery (not preserved) | Isolated sherds RB II taken from the floor | the earliest -

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

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