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 191 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 94Scan 191 of 206

- Layers 10 and 11 1 upper part of jug in pottery whitish, trimmed with a knife (not preserved) (drawing) 5 fragments of evolved "milk bowl" bowls (not preserved) 1 fragment base of bowl "base ring" in thin red pottery (not preserved) (drawing) 1 similar fragment in black pottery (not preserved) 1 vase base in fine pottery white white greenish, wheel-worked (not preserved) (drawing) 1 sherd of large jar made on the wheel, fine whitish pottery, brown decoration dark, well executed (not preserved) (drawing) 1 sherd of cream burnished pottery with brown decoration of parallel lines (not preserved) 1 fine fsimilar sherd (not preserved) Sherds of the RB II, Mycenaean and associated

- Layers 8 and 9 1 rim of cup in fine cream pottery with shiny brown decoration (preserved) (drawing) 1 rim of bowl in fine pottery, smoothed on one face, with red-brown decoration representing a wheel (?) (preserved) (drawing) 1 thin sherd of the same bowl, with a kind of checkerboard (preserved) (drawing) 1 fragment of cup base in pottery finely burnished (not preserved) (drawing)

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

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