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 191 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 99Scan 191 of 196

- 2,00 to 3,00: in old excavation: fragments of two kraters, style "close style": 1/ red paint linear decoration and spirals

Drawing: two drawings of pottery motifs, one with rim, spiral and vertical chevron band, the other with vertical chevron band and two cross-hatched lozenges

2/ [illegible] with geometric decoration in black fragments of Mycenaean krater with octopus-imitating decoration of local manufacture:

Drawing: wavy tentacle motif

Material sectors [illegible] 111 112, 113: no characteristic pottery

Material sector 114: 1/ Iron Age: handle of large bowl "wavy line" (III C 2 late) of a type new, with double torus (drawing) black decoration neck of large stirrup jug figurine head with black decoration (drawing) 2/ Late Bronze: krater close style (III C 1) biconical spindle whorl in steatite -

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

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