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 63 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 31Scan 63 of 116

2/ Late Bronze III :

carinated cups, buff pottery with decoration (drawing) dark red fragment of Late Mycenaean krater fragment of idol (?) with incised decoration (drawing)

0,80-1,00 = Late Bronze II : "milk bowl", "base ring" ware, painted jugs monochrome, 1 Mycenaean sherd (drawing) with bright red decoration

Secteur 123 : 0,70-1,00 = Late Bronze III fragment of Late Mycenaean krater : (drawing) brown decoration beaked jug = (drawing) sherds of common pottery.

Secteur 124 : 0,40-1,00 = Iron Age I : "wavy line" bowls, fragment of ladle (drawing) terracotta shovel (drawing), pyramidal loomweight t.c., cylindrical terracotta spindle whorl (drawing), loomweight t.c. (drawing) spheroidal black stone mace-head (drawing) | | limestone

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

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