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 65 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 32Scan 65 of 116

fragment of strainer jar (drawing), handle (drawing) fragment of steatite mortar (drawing)

1,00-1,50: Late Bronze III = carinated cups (drawing) white pottery with red decoration cup with bichrome decoration (drawing) (drawing) on white pottery bowl with broad spiral decoration (drawing) white pottery with brown decoration pyramidal terracotta loom weight (drawing)

1,50-2,00 = 1°/ Late Bronze II evolved "milk bowl", "base ring" ware Mycenaean sherd with black [illegible] lustrous decoration 2°/ Middle Bronze III early "base ring", "red on black", bichrome, archaic sherd with brown slip and very fine incised decoration (drawing)

Sector 125: 0,40-1,00 = Iron I or Late Bronze III fragments of non-characteristic cups fragments of ladles, small miniature vase (drawing) unfinished mace head, black stone (drawing)

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

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