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 63 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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At 90 cm depth, in the grey ashes, at the foot of the north wall, roughly in the middle of the trench, Pt 39: small jug complete, lying on its side - with its short cylindrical spout; it is typical of Iron I, like all the pottery found in this trench down to 1.00 depth - Work finished.

10/10/56- Trench XLIII - (see p. 9 et seq.) 0 to 60 cm: Layer 1: pottery of the end of Iron I degenerate "bucchero". 60 to 70 cm: Layer 2: floor: idem 70 to 90 cm: Layer 3: floors: pottery of Iron I: fragment of strainer, "bucchero", black concentric decoration 90 to 110 cm: Layer 4: to the north, rectangular hearth oriented north-south pottery of Iron I: bowl with rim straight and concentric decoration. (drawing) small basket handle with black decoration (drawing) 110 to 115 cm: Layer 5: floor: idem 115 to 170 cm: Layer 6: pottery of the beginning of Iron I or RB III: fine sub-Mycenaean bowls Pt 40: kiln visible in the section (see p. 10) the top appears at 1.00 depth with the holes for the evacuation of the smoke; the base lies at 1.80, bonded to the thick floor at 170 cm (Layer 7).

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

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