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 183 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 95Scan 183 of 196

1,20 to 1,50: Transition Late Bronze to Iron Age sherds cream fabric with black or dark red decoration of spirals, bowls with thin walls (drawing) (III C 1)

carefully made "bucchero" sherds (drawing) with fluting in relief [illegible] jugs with horizontal parallel bands black or red (Late decorated).

1,50 to 2,00 (down to the rock): Late Bronze: (cf. also p 96) a handle of a local Mycenaean cup base-ring sherds a bichrome krater rim (drawing) a neck of a bilbil with white decoration (drawing) a small cup (drawing) in base-ring type brown pottery 2 painted sherds Late Bronze 1 (drawing) or Middle Bronze III 2 red on black sherds. a terracotta spindle whorl (drawing), a steatite (drawing)

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

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