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 59 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 28Scan 59 of 206

Trench XXXVI - (see p. 90) 0-40 cm: grey earth (layer 1) 40-90 cm: brown earth (layer 2) 90-140 cm: ashes (layer 3)

Layers 1 and 2: coarse Iron Age pottery (not preserved) Layer 3: north-south wall; - to the East of this wall, Pt 38: two jugs standing, complete, rim at 90 cm, base at 120 cm - with, a lot of coarse pottery fragments of fine "wavy line" bowls early Iron I - one worked stone -

140 cm: in places, thin bed of red burnt earth - 140-180 cm: clay and ashes (layer 4) Sub-Mycenaean pottery early Iron I, well represented, or late RB III. 180 cm: thin bed of ashes and bones layer 4 is therefore bounded by two floors, so little consistent that one cannot distinguish them except in the sections -

180-200 cm: grey clayey and ashy earth (layer 5) with more abundant stones, Mycenaean pottery RB II - III 200-230 cm: compact brown earth (layer 6) "red on black" pottery, with red slip etc, MB III or RB I -

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

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