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 67 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 37Scan 67 of 196

1st October

Pt 538: fragments of large krater cratère jar painted crushed in place and jar neck apparently in situ, at 1 m 85 depth. Tr. West, sectors 25 - 26 /(limit)\ The krater is of whitish pottery with dark red decoration in concentric lines The jar is of greenish pottery. In the same place, ogival base of a jar very tall, of greenish pottery. All this pottery is clearly Late Bronze it is associated with some Mycenaean sherds.

The layers between 1 m 30 and 1 m 75 in the sector 25 have yielded sub-Mycenaean cups of the end of the Late Bronze, in fairly large quantity - Below 1 m 75, in holes in the rock descending to 2 m 00 depth, depth,

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

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