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Sherds with seal stamp impressions have been found at Troy,⁴ Tarsus,⁵ Mersin,⁶ Byblos,⁷ [handwritten: and Tell el-Farah.⁸] Sherds with cylinder seal impressions have also occurred at [handwritten: all] these sites [handwritten: except the last mentioned,] and it has been suggested that one and the same cylinder seal with a design on sides and butt-ends may have been used to impress a given pot.⁹ [handwritten: ?] However, in view of the existence of individual stamp seals of the stalk and other types with round shape, it is [handwritten: one may want] unlikely [handwritten: ...] To apply this theory with certainty [handwritten: reservations] o the sites mentioned above,/ [handwritten: [illegible]] Sherds with cylinder seal impressions have been found at all the sites mentioned above and [handwritten: at Hama,]¹⁰ Jericho,¹¹ Megiddo,¹² Tell ed-dschamid,¹³ and El-Karm,¹⁴ [handwritten: Tell et-Tabaiq, Tell Qurs and Bet Yerah,¹⁵]
It is with the cylinder seal impressions that the Bamboula finds have been associated [handwritten: compared]. The most important [handwritten: greatest] difficulty ... Therefore, a closer inspection of occurrence, dating and technique of the examples just adduced is appropriate. The greatest difficulty is to decide ... Thanks to the efforts of C. Schaeffer in interpreting the publication of this site, it is possible o gain some orientation on the excavations at [handwritten: Byblos] Ras Shamra instead/ ...
The impressed sherds 4512, 5019, 5073 and 5684 in Niveau III, assigned by Schaeffer to the Early Bronze Age, belong to Niveau II, the Middle Bronze Age.¹⁶ [handwritten: 5072,] 3282 belongs to Niveau III, [handwritten: 3081 bis] is [handwritten: were] a stray. This should be a stray. [handwritten: However, 3081 bis ecc to the evidence for at least sporadic continuation of the practice into the Middle Bronze Age. {hw: but possibly]}
At Hama, numerous examples [handwritten: were] found, of which at least twenty are mentioned mentioned in the preliminary report.¹⁷ These occurred in levels G III-IV, which are assigned to the twenty-second or twenty-first century B.C. At Tarsus, seven examples occurred in Early Bronze III levels, three more in levels from the beginning of the Middle Bronze period. Three fragments, all considered to be from the same vessel, were found at Jericho in Levels 1-3, the Pre-Israelite period, to which the excavator gave a lower terminus of 1500 B.C.¹⁸ There are four examples from Stage V at Megiddo, which appears to belong to the early part of the Early Dynastic Period, that is, the first century or so of the third millenium. [handwritten: The example from Tell et-Tabaiq is dated to the end of the Early Bronze period, [illegible], unstratified]
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain