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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 19 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 13Scan 19 of 196

Material from East trench, sectors 51 to 64

Sector 51: no sherds apart from the Late Bronze pottery of Pt 404. Area of Pt 404

Sector 52: Area of Pt 387 Very few sherds: Nothing kept. Iron Age: fragment of bowl "wavy lines" Late Bronze: fragments of carinated bowls (drawing) in whitish fabric

Sector 53: Area of Pt 372 Important group of Sub-Mycenaean pottery of the end of the Late Bronze, coming from a hole in the rock, probably old excavation unfortunately.

Sector 54: Area of Pts 373 and 384 Little pottery, mostly Sub-Mycenaean end Late Bronze - and Mycenaean Area disturbed by old excavations.

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

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