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 185 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 96Scan 185 of 196

Sector 97, below pt 601, depth 1m 70, on the rock, in the NE corner of the room, a dagger in bronze with 3 rivets a pin with coiled head fragments of a steatite dish decorated with incisions

Drawing: two curved rim fragments with incised zig-zag decoration, two pins, one dagger blade with three rivet holes, and three pierced weights/spindle whorls

from 1,75 to 2,00 – Several spindle whorls in earth pebble little or badly fired (cf p. 83)

Excavation resumed in sectors 118 119 and 120 beyond 2m 20.

At pt 605, sect. 98, 1m 75, the channel ends in a thick pottery bowl

Drawing: side profile and top view of a spouted bowl/basin; labels: (cf p 82)

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

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