Manuscript·34 CDF art. 157·1970

Draft preliminary reportClaude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer

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Handwritten in French. Every line is transcribed and translated, and the English sits beside the scan.

Scan 5 of manuscript 34 CDF art. 157 (Draft preliminary report), handwritten in French. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Collège de France, Paris, 34 CDF art. 157, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

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of the 2nd millennium in the Aegean (in Crete and Mycenae in particular) remain to be established. 2:- In the same sector Elsewhere in the centre of the town, | At another location in the centre M. J. Lagarce resumed the exploration of the | of the town, wells and cisterns used during the Mycenaean periods (14th- 13th c.) and the period immediately post-Mycenaean , (beginning of the Iron Age I, 12th-11th centuries B.C. A.D. (cf. already Ugaritica, VI, 1969 | Lagarce in p. 349 ff. and Schaeffer, Syria, 1969, | deposits p. 267 ff.). Among the deposits pottery stratified contained in of these of these wells was also found a various of the weights in one haematite or bronze, one of which, fitted with a lead tare, depicts a small mouse. | represents 3.- Further to the West, at the end of the fifth transverse street east-west of the city Mr M. and M Mrs Lagarce were were were entrusted with the excavation of a sector of the town where the tomb robbers, owing to the depth of the archaeological layers, had have abandoned their destructive searches. disorderly before causing great damage. The constructions with with walls of brick on a footing of dry stone succeed one another here are occupy variously superimposed

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