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 53 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 26Scan 53 of 116

22/11/61Work stopped on the area because of the north wind -

23/11/61Cleaning work on the area with 2 workmen and 2 workwomen.

Material recovered in the second trench - Sector 113: fragments of a cup carinated in red pottery (drawing) with white slip rim of a carinated cup, same pottery (drawing) - probably coming from an old excavation.

Sector 114: 0 to 0,20 = Iron Age - (drawing) handle of large bowl "wavy line" with double torus, black decoration

base of rhyton: (drawing)

rim of krater "close style" (drawing) greenish-white pottery, brown decoration

idol head in terracotta, black decoration (drawing)

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

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