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 5 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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26/9/58 Trench XLI - Stratigraphy upper layers: 0 to 50 cm = brown layer = layer 1 50 cm = top of east-west wall 50 to 70 cm = to the north, white floor ) to the south, large kiln ) layer 2 (burnt clayey earth) Pt 25 [illegible] beyond 70 cm = in the centre, reddish earth ) to the south, ashes ) layer 3 In the centre, from 150 to 190 cm: bed of ashes. [illegible] Layer 4 At 190 cm, there seems to be a white floor [illegible] or the top of the rock table -

Material upper layers: Layer 1: pottery not very abundant 2 bowls "wavy lines" (drawing) basket handle Date: end of Iron I - Layer 3: pottery not very characteristic rare in the centre, very abundant in the ashes under Pt 25 - Date: Iron I - Layer 4: pottery rare and not very characteristic no sherd has been kept from the excavated part in the centre - Date: probably early Iron I. the excavation of the southern part will give perhaps more precise indications -

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

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