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 167 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 87Scan 167 of 196

- 1,10 - 1,50 : Recent Bronze : evolved "milk bowl", "base ring", fragment of lamp in black pottery, very well fired and thin base-ring type, à (drawing) [illegible] with pinched spout sherds painted in black, surface re-cut - base of small jug with white slip (drawing) Sub-Mycenaean - rim same style - - base of Mycenaean type (drawing) sherd of stirrup jar, late, red decoration - - one coarse spherical spindle whorl (drawing) one steatite weight (drawing) in the shape of a tetrahedron:

- 1,50 - 2,00 : Recent Bronze : evolved "milk bowl", "base ring" with black slip sherds with black decoration on greenish ground - sherd of stirrup jar with lustrous decoration, Early Mycenaean - bichrome sherds, one with + of Malta one spiral: (drawing)

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

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