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 163 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 85Scan 163 of 196

sherds with blackish slip and Base-ring sherds - a clay sling bullet (drawing) - Pt 590, 1,00 - 1,80: end of Middle Bronze. sherds of a large jar with a series of incisions on the neck (drawing) pottery with black decoration of wavy & straight lines or cross-hatching -> (drawing) pottery with red decoration, same motifs pottery "red on red" and "red on black" - a incised biconical spindle whorl -> (drawing) with inlay of white material

Material sector 92 (cf p. 70) - 0,40 - 0,75: Iron Age pottery, not very characteristic; a few sherds "wavy line" style (III C2) - 0,75 - 1,00: Late Bronze pottery: Base-ring, evolved "milk bowl" sherds with black slip - animal figurine fragment a few Mycenaean chips - (drawing) a few Middle Bronze sherds: red on red

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

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