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 87 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 42Scan 87 of 206

Trench I - (see p. 67) - Layer 2 (looted tomb) fragments of "milk bowl" bowls (not kept) fragments of degenerate "red on black" (not kept) 1 rim of "base ring" bowl (not kept) fragment of cup in fine buff pottery, with slip cream, with a red band (not kept) RB I-II sherds, looted tomb of the 15th and 14th c.

- Layer 1 Iron I sherds, not very characteristic (not kept) 1 carinated footed cup in yellowish pottery (kept)

Drawing: two profiles of a carinated footed cup

1 loom weight (Inv no. 1) Iron I (12th - 11th c.)

Trench III - (see p. 68) - Layers 3 and 2 1 complete "base-ring" bowl with wall very thin (Inv no. 5)

Drawing: profile of a bowl with a wishbone handle

Rims of coarser "base-ring" bowls (not kept) 1 rim of small vessel in green pottery with black decoration (not kept)

Drawing: rim sherd with vertical and wavy line decoration

1 neck base of jug in grey pottery with horizontal grooves (not kept)

Drawing: neck of a jug with horizontal grooves

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

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