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 19 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 8Scan 19 of 206

Drawing: plan of a trench corner with a rectangular feature containing two schematic figures and a north arrow; labels: Temoin; Emplacement du Pt 28; N; Tr XLVI

the rest of the skeleton lies to the west of the trench. Iron Age burial, in open earth, body on its back, head to the west.

Trench XXXIX. (see p. 97) [illegible] Beyond 160 cm, in the NW corner, greenish fine earth filling a well or a cistern: layer 4. Depth reached: 220 cm - The excavation must be continued in this sector whose stratigraphy is not clear.

Material: Layer 2: fine "wavy line" bowls, Iron I, as we saw above (p. 98) - Layer 4 = scanty pottery: fine "wavy line" bowls fairly fine "bucchero" Date: probably beginning of Iron I 1 large loom weight also comes from the well.

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

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