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 21 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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29/9/58 Trench XLVII - 0 to 50 cm: brown earth = layer 1 50 to 70 cm: traces of floor: in places, earth greenish or ashy: layer 2 At 70 cm, excavation stopped -

Material of layers 1 and 2: rare pottery; bowls "wavy lines"; "cruchons" - End Iron I - 1150-1050 -

Trench XLIII. Stratigraphy: 0 to 60 cm: brown earth with particles white: Layer 1 60 to 70 cm: floor: Layer 2 represented to the north by a hearth of red baked earth, disappearing at the centre and shown to the south by the installation industrial of Ptt 31 (see description below) Beyond 70 cm, at the centre, large cistern connected with Ptt 31, filled with stones and loose earth: Ptt 32 -

To the north, [illegible] 70 to 90 cm: series of floors in grey earth: Layer 3 ashy, with horizontal sherds abundant, charcoal, bones - Architectural level linked to these floors -

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

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