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 69 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 38Scan 69 of 196

one encounters sherds from the middle of the Late Bronze, mixed with others some sherds Middle Bronze -

Pt^ 542: group of pebbles, about twenty Trench West, Sector 22, Depth: 1m50 (see p. 51)

Pt^ 543: whetstone (drawing) Depth: 0m50 Trench East, sector 88 no. 279

Pt^ 390 (continued): in addition to the objects noted in this Middle Bronze tomb (see p. 87, 94, 100 and 8), note the following: no. 282 a large bone tool, fragmentary, a kind of palette (drawing)

no. 289 no. 290 two perforated stones (drawing) of the "net weight" type no. 291 a kind of polisher in stone (drawing)

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

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