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 93 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 50Scan 93 of 196

Material from West trench, squares 21 - 27:

[illegible] Square 21: Area of Pt 516: 1°/ 0 to 1m 25: Iron Age pottery "wavy line" bowls fragment of degenerate krater, greenish pottery (drawing) base of carinated cup with decoration of (drawing) black concentric bands on the interior 2 horns of a terracotta bovid figurine (drawing) 1 pyramidal loom weight t.c. fragments of cups with black concentric decoration 2°/ Pt 516: pottery mixed Iron Age and R B I, not preserved.

Square 22 North: Area of Pts 504, 506, 507, 542 1°/ 0 to 1m 25: Iron Age pottery (504, 506) "wavy line" bowls, small cylindrical spout - Nothing preserved Area of Pt 542: miniature Iron Age jug, fragment of carinated and conical cup (drawing) fragment of base with black concentric circles fragment of bone stylus (drawing)

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

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