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 75 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 41Scan 75 of 196

Sector 13: Region Pts 389, 393, 425 1st/ from 0 to 1 m 00: Iron Age pottery chandelier, brown-grey pottery (drawing) fragments of lamps (drawing) carinated cups, greenish pottery, brown decoration (drawing) concentric inside fragments of bowls "wavy line" flask neck (drawing) fragments of late "bucchero" 1 bone terminal of style: (drawing) 1 loom weight of fired clay 1 needle in bronze (drawing) (to be linked to Pt 393) no. 280

2nd/ beyond 1m Late Bronze: 1 Mycenaean chip 2 sherds, bichrome jar Middle Bronze: light pottery with decoration dark (drawing) (drawing) sherds "red on black", painted jugs, (drawing) carinated bowls (drawing), primitive "milk bowl"

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

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