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 75 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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handles bear the mark of a matrix probably of wood: (drawing) But there are also some bowls "wavy line", a "bucchero" vase (all fragmentary) some other Iron I sherds and a fragment of a stirrup vase. 1/2 basalt mortar. At 1.35, in the SE corner, a rod of engraved ivory. At 1.50, in the centre, an arrowhead and three bronze buttons (see p. 29), and in the NW corner, a bronze plaque.

D/ from 150 to 165 cm: layer of earth reaching down to the base of the walls.

Next comes layer 4: 165 to 220 cm Fine greenish earth with charcoal under the walls Under pt 25, again abundant pottery jars the rock forms a hollow of 30 cm in depth (190 to 220 cm); jars broken in situ, of the same type as in layer 3; near the SE corner, two bowls which seem to belong to the beginning of Iron I, Pt 42 resting on the rock Pt 42 . At the centre, at 1.80, bronze rod. In the NW, cavity in the rock, not yet emptied but which has already yielded a sherd of M.B. III -

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

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