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 57 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 28Scan 57 of 116

Sector 117: 0 - 0,50: Late Bronze III bases of cups, whitish pottery (drawing) and bowls handles idem, with black decoration (drawing) bowl rim with garland decoration, (drawing) earlier than the "wavy line" style (MC III 1) black to dark brown decoration, yellowish white pottery -

0,50 - 1,00: Late Bronze II Mycenaean sherds with shiny red decoration sherd "base ring", fragment of vessel with flat rim: (drawing) in fine yellow pottery base of stirrup jar with matt black decoration spheroidal weight in hard limestone: (drawing)

Sector 118: 0 - 0,50: Iron I bowls with reinforced base, pottery (drawing) brick red Base cut with string "Wavy line" bowl with dark red decoration (Myc III C 1 Early) of the early type

Sector 118 119: pt 647: 1,00 - 1,60: Middle Bronze "red on black", "red on red", pottery with black slip, bichrome sherds, painted jugs with linear decoration

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

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