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 27 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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Layer 7 and 6: pottery rarer fine pottery of light colour Mycenaean sherds Proposed date: LB II-III Layer 8: pottery rare "milkbowl", "base ring", lustrous, with red or black slip, perhaps "red on red" Proposed date: LB I

The pottery seems to indicate a division different: Level A: layers 1, 2 and pts 31, 32 upper architecture: Iron I Level B: layers 3 to 7 second level of architecture: LB II - LB III Level C: layer 8: traces of lower architecture: LB I

An enlargement of the excavation would allow [illegible] to specify the transition from LB III to Iron I.

Other objects: Layer 1: 1 pestle and 1 stone weight. Layer 6: fragment of bronze (there were slags in the layer; the kiln visible in section indicates a [illegible] craftsman's workshop).

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

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