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 93 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 45Scan 93 of 206

fragment of jar in well-fired chamois pottery, with metallic ring, cream slip and lines parallel in wine-lees colour (not kept) neck of jar in fine pottery, hand-made brown decoration (kept)

Drawing: decorated pottery neck fragment

fragment neck of jug with stripes of red paint (kept)

Drawing: fragment with horizontal bands

fragment of handle with dark red decoration (kept)

Drawing: handle fragment with horizontal lines

sherds in gritty chamois pottery with parallel dark red decoration (kept

Drawing: painted decorative motifs with vertical and wavy lines

numerous fragments of the body of a jug in fine chamois pottery with decoration of intersecting parallel lines in black paint (1 sherd kept)

Drawing: intersecting bands of parallel lines

handles of "red on black" bowls (not kept)

Drawing: loop handle and profile

sherd painted in dark brown - (kept) [illegible]

Drawing: sherd with geometric lines and eye-like circle

Sherds MB III (XVII c.)

- Layer 1 2 worn handles (not kept):

Drawing: two wishbone handles

Date:

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

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