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 21 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.

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Sector 55: Region pts 398 and 418 Rare pottery - Submycenaean and Mycenaean sherds - 1 bovid horn in pottery (drawing) 1 loom weight (drawing) 1 steatite spindle whorl (drawing) 1 button in pottery (to be inventoried) (drawing) 1 fragment of mortar (?) (drawing) in well-fired greenish pottery

Sector 56: Region pt. 370 Few sherds. Nothing preserved Iron Age and of end of Late Bronze (Submycenaean)

Sector 57: Region Pt 390 Submycenaean pottery, including fragments of a stirrup vase - Small soft-paste jug, Late Bronze - A few sherds, Middle Bronze 1 pestle in granite Presence of numerous 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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