Notebook·34 CDF art. 242·Undated

Notebook of notes on Cyprus, Gaza, Jericho, Egypt and Syria (chronologies)Claude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer

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

Scan 15 of notebook 34 CDF art. 242 (Notebook of notes on Cyprus, Gaza, Jericho, Egypt and Syria (chronologies)), handwritten in English, German and French. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Collège de France, Paris, 34 CDF art. 242, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

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… until Late Br. Age , when on a single Cypriote (?) pot (Studies p. 185.) & on "Base Ring" ware. - Ma ware considered as suggests ware may be foreign) Metal. 2 golden lock-holder, silver head-band & pair of silver pins , like Mochlos II, XIX Seager. - Author cites Mycenaean a babyl. par. for band. Bronze: The blade 5 may have been more of a (drawing) spear tha or jave - lin , as has been pointed out (Schaeffer, Miss., p 42) , the position with rela- tion to squeleton often favors such reconstruction. Pair of hunting blades in chamber 6 C were similarly placed. - Daggers only 1 rivet. Schaeffer thinks that the more experienced the bronze worker grew, the fewer he must have needed , whereas Gjerstad finds more rivets in EC III blades than in S E II (Studies p. 267) . - Pins (7) may be classed with Myres' first group having a small head . See also L 322 A (Swed) L 318. 24. - Rest of bronzes of 6A are paralleled pretty closely within the III A groups. 45 by positis one of the earliest offerings in 6A , foundrigen 7 and 8 must be the latest group Faïence beads.

Drawing: three small circles in a row] greenish or white paste: : anciently brilliant

blue-green (Mes Miss. pl. XX, 1) . Inspiration of not manufacture of these beads is Middle Kingdom Egypt , must be used as dating point (see Myres, Handbook, p. XXIX , Gj. Studies , p. 334 ; Crete see PM I , p 490; Frbg. Frankf. Studies II, p. 152, note 2 . Swedes find tw. the beads with rather late EC III , but L 322 B. 14. = EC III A ) .

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

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