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 201 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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Trench XLIV - (see p. 13, 26) - Layers 6 - 8: see p. 26 Pt 34: spindle whorl in ivory (Inv. no. 181)

- Layer 5 1 fragment "milk bowl" (not preserved) 1 cup base in greenish fine pottery with brown painted spiral (not preserved) (drawing) 1 sherd of buff pottery with greenish slip with red band (not preserved) 1 jug rim in white pottery [illegible] with (drawing) red decoration (not preserved) | Sherds early Iron I (1200-1150)

- Layers 3 and 4 1 fragment of handle of large bowl "wavy lines" in cream pottery with (drawing) black decoration (not preserved) 1 cup rim in greenish pottery (drawing) with black decoration, with grooves [illegible] (not preserved) 1 buff sherd with white slip and parallel red bands (not preserved) | Sherds Iron I, intermediate phase | (1150-1050)

- Layers 1 and 2 1 krater base in buff with red decoration (drawing) shiny (not preserved) 1 Mycenaean sherd, surface worn

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

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