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 39 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 18Scan 39 of 206

2/10/58 Temple Sector. East Area. 2nd Trench -

0 to 20 cm: surface layer of brown earth compact: Layer 1 pottery rare and mixed (not kept)

20 to 70 cm: layer of reddish earth with white specks [illegible] fairly soft: Layer 2 This layer is homogeneous in the north part of the trench; it is then interrupted by the extension of the East-West road; south of this, it is almost everywhere replaced by varied spoil from old excavations pottery not very abundant: some fragments of "wavy lines" bowls of the end of Iron I.

3/10/58 70 to 80 cm: layer of grey ash with more abundant sherds: Layer 3 Occupation layer 80 cm: bed of burnt earth with sherds horizontal: Floor I: Layer 4

Pt 206: small stone weight in the shape of an olive, south of the trench, to the SE of Pt^ 198, in layer 3 Depth: 0.75.

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

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