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 79 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 38Scan 79 of 206

13/10/58 Trench XLI - (see p. 34) At 190 cm, it is not the rock but a floor which appears . 190 to 205: white floor: layer 5 no sherds

205 to 270 cm: stones to the south, earth fine greenish to the north: layer 6 270 cm: rock, virgin soil. Rare sherds in layer 6: the only identifiable ones are M B III -

Layer 6 seems to represent an artificial fill to level the ground on which it was intended to establish the first living floor - x

Trench XLIII - (see p 9 et seq.) Dismantling of the large inverted bowl from Pt 31 - Inside this vessel were found a few sherds, including a rim of pithos with inscription a few incised signs -

x Trench XLI - Pt 25 is bounded by four walls, with a door in the west part of the south wall, also built on layer 4 -

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

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