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 161 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 84Scan 161 of 196

Material from sector 91: (see p. 70) beginning Iron Age – 0,40 to 0,75: sherds of closed coarse style: krater, paste greenish, brown decoration greenish of confronted spirals

Drawing: two spiral motifs, a rim profile and a painted spiral-and-wavy-line decoration

– tuyère of founder in calcined black pottery (drawing)

– base of late krater, cream paste (drawing) with brown decoration

– cylindrical spindle whorl, terracotta (drawing)

– earlier Mycenaean sherds base of rhyton handle of krater and rim (drawing)

– spout and rim of jug, white paste ↓feeding-bottle (drawing)

– rim of Submycenaean cup with red decoration. Late – 0,75 to 1,00: in and under white floor Bronze

– rim of Submycenaean cup with red decoration

– fragments of Late Mycenaean krater (drawing)

– neck of jug with red decoration

Drawing: double-arc motif] brown decoration [sketch: tall cylindrical neck with horizontal bands

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

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