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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 165 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 86Scan 165 of 196

Material from sector 93 (see p. 70) - 0,40-1,50 : material mixed by earlier excavations Iron Age and Late Bronze a handle with sign: (drawing) sherds not very characteristic. - 1,50-2,00 : a few Late Bronze sherds evolved milk bowl, base ring -

Material from sector 94 (see p 70) - 0,40-0,75 : coarse Iron Age sherds fragment of carinated cup yellowish fabric fragment of cup with horizontal handle (drawing) a pyramidal loom weight (drawing)

- 0,75-1,10 : sherds of early Iron Age: bowls wavy line (III C 2) bowl with groove (drawing) a conical steatite spindle whorl (drawing) incised b jug neck of ) (drawing) with swelling

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

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