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 79 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 43Scan 79 of 196

Sector (15): Region of pts 400, 427, 435, 438 1°/ from 0 to 1 m 25: Iron Age pottery bowls "wavy line", cups with trilobed horizontal handle (drawing) [illegible] large fragment krater with black linear decoration (drawing)

2°/ from 1 m 25 to 1 m 60: Submycenaean pottery of Late Bronze III, attached to pt 427: fine cups with dark red linear decoration, small globular jug with dark red decoration of concentric bands.

3°/ from 1 m 60 to 1 m 80: Late Bronze I pottery and II bichrome sherds (cf p. 21) Mycenaean chip with shiny decoration

4°/ from 1 m 80 to 1 m 90: Middle Bronze pottery (cf p. 22) sherd with animal decoration and white slip (drawing) loomweights in terracotta (drawing) and (drawing)

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

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