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 7 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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Trench XLII - Stratigraphy of upper layers: 0 to 60 cm: greyish earth: Layer 1 60 cm: in the centre, north-south street, bordered by walls - 60 to 110 cm: to the east and to the south to the west, red earth with white particles, with | C. 2 in places, beds of greenish earth / 110 to 150 cm: fine greenish earth: Layer 3 150 to 190 cm: grey ashes with charcoal | and horizontal sherds, very | Layer 4 abundant: hearths / (met only to the east, up to now) 190 to 200 cm: beds of burnt earth | brick-red and of | Layer 5 white material; floors / Beyond 200 cm: stones mixed with | Layer 6 burnt earth /

Finds from upper layers: Layers 1 and 2: pottery rare and mixed (not kept) Layers 3 and 4: pottery abundant: bowls "wavy line" of very fine quality, with black or red painting - spindle whorl in incised stone, loom weights in baked clay - Layers 5 and 6: pottery rare, but similar. [illegible] Iron I -

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

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