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 73 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.

Unnumbered pageScan 73 of 116

Stamp: 36

- Large basin in white yellowish paste; spout, 2 handles (drawing) base missing; decorated with a wavy line dark red on the exterior (drawing) and with dark red bands on the rim and interior; diam: 27 cms - Base probably of the preceding vessel: (drawing) diam: 10 cms. - Biconical spindle whorl, brown pottery (or stone?) (drawing) Pyramidal loom weight, terracotta (drawing) Flat loom weight, terracotta, roughly modelled (drawing)

1,50 - 1,70 : Late Bronze II evolved "milk bowl", "base ring" ware, one bichrome sherd, sherd of pottery re-cut with a knife, jug with black decoration. (drawing) fragment of a cup with brown decoration. (drawing) stone loom weights (drawing) , basalt pestle (drawing) + Middle Bronze III = early "milk bowl" (drawing) with bichrome decoration early base ring (drawing) , Tell Yahudiyeh (drawing)

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

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