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 61 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 34Scan 61 of 196

Schematic section:

Drawing: schematic section showing two hatched vertical blocks, three horizontal lines, and a stepped line with hachures; labels: Wall; 0,75; 1,25; 1,30; Rock

The surface of the rock is very irregular

On the floor at 1 m 30, one meets with pottery Sub-Mycenaean, late Late Bronze: cups with red decoration, vases with strainer spouts, jugs with small cylindrical "feeding-bottle" spouts. Below the floor at 1 m 30, there are walls but few well-defined floors - In places, there are heaps of pebbles or clay as if one had wanted to eliminate the irregularities of the rock and level - Immediately above the rock, one generally meets in the West trench a floor linked to the lower architectural phase with sherds mixed of Late Bronze and Middle Bronze, the latter being often in majority the most numerous -

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

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