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 53 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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7/10/58 Trench XLVI - (see p. 3) Removal of part of the la layers 5 and 6 still in place, with pottery: Sub-Mycenaean pottery mixed with fragments of "milk bowls"; date: L.B. III or beginning of Iron I - Work finished.

Trench XXVI - (see p. 79) Tomb Pt 15: clearing of a second skeleton extended, skull to the W.; this skeleton is situated to the E. of the contracted skeleton. Near left arm, perforated ivory disc (Object no. 4).

Trench XXI - (see p. 82) The beds of red or grey clayey earth seem to have been deposited naturally on a slope; the virgin clay soil is reached at a depth of 2.50 - Work finished.

Trench XXXIX - (see pp. 81 and 97) The NW corner is occupied by a well whose top is at a depth of 1.30 and whose rock base is reached at 3.20 - The fine green earth (layer 4) which fills this sump contains few sherds, almost all of the Iron Age: "bucchero"; one fragment of "milk bowl" is probably accidental. Work finished.

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

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