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

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1Beit Mirsim I AJA 1932 (Albr.) level J + I. (EB + MB.) little recov. few sherds H. well repr. pot. closely // to Late Can. Jeri. incised dec. caliciform most caract. G + F though sep. by destruction & rest. = same cult. phase pott. diff. to disting. diff. in pott. betw. H and G much sharper than hitherto — believed. Carinat. bowl of G may be dated to 18^th c. or 19^th. no scarabs — Debrieh of F

3E . Hyksos occup. middle 18^th c. (see AJA, XII, § 27) Earth rampart = Hyksos (see c) to strat. E. — Some with meaningless hierogl. Fine pot. alabast. & faiences in E . Principl. diff. betw. E + D = deterioration of form, Tell Yah. become decadent / in D. — E houses = megaron type D level, little. Scarab, (none good, and prob. dated too low, comme urei italq. all caract. of Nv site Br (pot. scar. & other obj) & par. to similar mater. from tombs in Egypt of late Sec. Interm. period. Close [As shift took place in E. betw. reign of Amenoph I & Thutmosis III , betw. 1550-1450,] so we cannot go, in any case

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2542E = cont. with El Yahoudiyeh (so in my opinion level ant. to inv. car walls are prepar. against invasion but not once inv accomplished. Verif. idée). — E lasted long time. of the 3 floor levels = 1 ¹/2 m | (drawing) | burnished E level. debris fine hematite cyl. (fig 1) mixture Egypt. & asiat. Devel. | | god (drawing) . Cuneiform reflects period 1^st bab. dyn. Style resemb. Atanakh cyl. ité cyl. from Taanach (Sellin) somewhat earlier! BM. cyl. dated by context to 17^th c. (or earlier) Atanakh cyl. = prehiksos & goes back to 19^th or 20^th cent. — G cyl. attr. to go below end of the 16^th c. for close of level D (1500) (this dating indirect and not very sure, probabl. older and hiatus (corr. Ug. M 3) not recognised — | |

p. 561 number of transitional forms from D to C much smaller than supposed.

C level divided by burned level in C² | here ¹/2 doz. Myc. sh. level burned lev. C¹ | scar of Amenoph. III pott. noth. i.e. base r. & wishbone h break betw. C ¹⁺² = before 1360