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 73 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 40Scan 73 of 196

2nd/ from 1m 00 to the rock: - Late Bronze pottery: small Mycenaean chips (1m 00-1m 20) "milk bowl" fairly early - Middle Bronze pottery abundant: (1m 20 - 1m 50) complete hemispherical bowl in beige pottery (drawing) decorated with a cross in brown paint handle missing small jug almost complete in pottery (drawing) brown with orange surface, red painted decoration dark. fragments of similar juglets fragments of another bowl sherds "[illegible] red on black" sherds of large jars with relief band (drawing) bronze stem, black pottery spindle whorl (drawing) biconical, with decoration incised before firing

This material of the Middle Bronze relates to PT 442 and 446 - the deepest walls resting directly on the rock may also belong to the level of the Middle Bronze.

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

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