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 71 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 35Scan 71 of 116

carinated cups with horizontal handle cream ware. small pot in the form of an inkpot with two small lugs at the shoulder; neck missing:

Drawing: rim profile with handle, banded cylindrical vessel, and shoulder profile with lug

pt 672 , 1,30 to 1,70, belonging to the floor ~ 1 m 50 = Recent Bronze III: bowls "proto wavy line", with irregular garland; cream ware:

Drawing: double wavy line motif

- bowls with associated spiral decoration, brown or red:

- fragment of krater close style:

Drawing: two spiral motifs with cross-hatched lozenge and ladder bands | geometric motifs with triangles, curved lines and concentric arcs enclosing a lozenge

- fragments of jugs with white slip and decoration of parallel red bands - carinated cups with horizontal handle yellowish-white ware, brown decoration - cup with red decoration and chamois ware same decoration

Drawing: two rim profiles of bowls with horizontal handles

- fragments of stirrup jars with matt decoration black or red: wolf-tooth decoration and stylized elements of the close style type

Drawing: stylized floral motif and hatched curved motif; upper part of a stirrup jar with zigzag bands and floral motif on shoulder

- small jug in white soft ware with brown decoration, of the type close style: h.: 8 cm 5, diam. max: 10 cms.

Drawing: small biconical vessel with two handles on belly, horizontal bands and spiral/hook motifs

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

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