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 7 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 3Scan 7 of 116

Pt 624: sector 126, north - west part, in the north - east corner of a room, on the edge of an old excavation, at 1 m 00 from depth: cylinder seal in hematite faience, well engraved (drawing) representation of standing figures.

Sector 122: two architectural phases can be distinguished tural. 1°/ walls of large dressed blocks, set on the rock, top at about 0 m 80: an east - west wall, which joins the north - south wall noted at the west limit of 92

2°/ wall of small rough masonry, founded at 0 m 50 and preserved on one course: a fragment of north - south wall at the limit west of sector 122, as well as a wall north south in the west part of sector 92 superimposed on the wall in fine masonry noted above, but shifted towards the east slightly.

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

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