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 81 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 39Scan 81 of 206

15/10/58to 18/10/58 - Study of the material from the magnetic soundings - The material is studied in chronological order, from the virgin soil to the surface. For details of the stratigraphy, see the earlier notes.

Trench O - (see p. 66-67) - Layer 2 1 bowl rim "red on black", worn (not kept) 1 handle fragment with rectangular profile and stripes of red paint - (not kept) | MB III sherds, recovered isolated on | in contact with the virgin soil

1 krater rim in yellowish pottery brown spiral decoration (kept)

Drawing: rim sherd with profile on right, decorated with hatched band and spiral

1 krater rim in yellowish pottery black painted decoration (kept)

Drawing: rim sherd with profile on right, decorated with hatched rim, vertical chevron bands and wavy line

1 fragment of painted vessel in well-smoothed buff fine pottery, dark brown paint (kept)

Drawing: decorated body sherd with hatched band, horizontal lines and wavy lines

1 fragment of painted vessel in buff fine pottery with yellowish slip, concentric brown lines (not kept)

1 flaring bowl rim, fine pottery beige, parallel brown lines dark (not kept)

Drawing: profile of a flaring bowl rim with horizontal lines on the exterior

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

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