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 85 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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fragment of jar shoulder in beige pottery with yellow slip, concentric lines mauve wine-lees colour (not preserved)

Drawing: pottery sherd with parallel hatched bands

rims of vessels in yellowish pottery with parallel lines dark brown (not preserved)

fragments of bowl rim with wall thin, in fine buff pottery, with cream slip; red slip bright inside, a band at the rim and a wavy band in bright red on the outside (not preserved)

Drawing: rim sherd with hatched rim band and wavy band below

Sherds of the beginning of Iron I (1200-1150)

Rim and handle of bowl, type "wavy line" in green pottery with black slip (not preserved)

Drawing: rim sherd with arched handle

Handle of the same type in orange pottery with brown paint (not preserved) Sherds of the end of Iron I (1150-1050), found entirely on the surface

Layer 1 attributed as a whole to Iron I first phase (1200-1150) -

Trench O therefore yielded two layers: one of Late Bronze (XIIIe c.) and one of Iron I (XIIe c.) -

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

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