Notebook·34 CDF art. 128-7·1960–1961

Excavation notebook of Contenson, 5th notebook, 1960 and 1961H. de Contenson

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Handwritten in French. Every line is transcribed and translated, and the English sits beside the scan.

Scan 109 of notebook 34 CDF art. 128-7 (Excavation notebook of Contenson, 5th notebook, 1960 and 1961), handwritten in French. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Collège de France, Paris, 34 CDF art. 128-7, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

Page 58Scan 109 of 196

5 OctoberPt 440 (see p. 9): the cleaning of the interior of the jar yielded some Late Bronze sherds and three complete vessels, placed at 50 cm below the mouth of the jar: - 2 juglets in soft paste. beige, trimmed, Syrian type one intact, the other without handle

Drawing: profile of a pointed-base juglet; labels: No 328; No 329

- 1 squat juglet in pale paste:

Drawing: profile of a squat globular juglet; labels: No 327

Removal of part of the témoin to the East of Pt 440: white floor between 1 m 70 and 1 m 90. brown layer from 1 m 90 to 1 m 95. white floor from 1 m 95 (Pt 440) to 2 m 10 - greenish clayey earth from 2 m 10 to the rock, at about 2 m 50 - Material to study - The sherds of the white floors appear Late Bronze II - I, those of the underlying clay Middle Bronze.

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

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