Notebook·34 CDF art. 128-8·1961

Excavation notebook of Henri de Contenson, sixth notebook, 1961H. de Contenson

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Handwritten in French. Every line is transcribed and translated, and the English sits beside the scan.

Scan 35 of notebook 34 CDF art. 128-8 (Excavation notebook of Henri de Contenson, sixth notebook, 1961), handwritten in French. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Collège de France, Paris, 34 CDF art. 128-8, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

Page 17Scan 35 of 116

Ptt 673: sector 129, 1 m 90: end of a channel in terracotta oriented East-West and extending beyond the limits of the trench.

Drawing: T-shaped pipe segment with north arrow and line representing trench edge; labels: N

To the west of this channel, at 1 m 90, thick white floor, resting on [illegible] [illegible] a stone bedding at - 2 m 00.

(continued from page 16). At the location of Ptt 672, the floor at 1 m 60 (cf. p. 15) does not exist; the sump is linked to the floor at 1,50 (cf. p. 12) - floor posanterior to the destruction which marks the end of the Late Bronze (c. 1200 B.C.). In the rest of the sector, below the floor at 1,60, sterile clay, then rock at 1,80/1,90 - A first examination of the pottery before washing suggests that the pottery recovered above and in the floor at 1,60 is Late Bronze II -

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

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