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 83 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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1 cup base in fine white pottery (drawing) (not preserved) [illegible] Sherds Mycenaean late or "Close style"

1 flared bowl rim in pottery (drawing) fine chamois ware with whitish slip decoration of 2 red lines (preserved) 1 bowl rim of same type, of less good workmanship (not preserved) Sherds of late Mycenaean or of the sub-Mycenaean (transition) - possibly therefore be contemporary with the preceding group.

Layer ② attributed to LB III second phase (Close style) (1225-1200)

- Layer ① fragments of a straight-rimmed bowl (drawing) and black concentric decoration (preserved) fragments of a cup with straight rim (drawing) brick-red pottery, red concentric decoration (not preserved) carinated cup rim in yellow pottery (drawing) (not preserved) cup rim of the same type (not preserved)

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

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