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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 77 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 77 of 116

Stamp: 38

1,00-1,30: beginning Fer I: bowls "wavy line" type ancien (M III C 2 Early) conical spindle whorl black stone (drawing)

1,30-1,50: Late Bronze III: cups pottery with white slip with red decoration carinated cups red decoration bowl with spirals (drawing) (drawing) jugs in cream pottery with red decoration fragment tuyère black pottery (drawing) One "bucchero" sherd (perhaps later)

1,50-2,00 : Late Bronze II. evolved "milk bowl" (burnt sherds) bichrome sherds with "Union Jack" "base ring" ware + Middle Bronze III (drawing) "red on black", sherds with black decoration (drawing)

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

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