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 29 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.

Page -5-Scan 29 of 107

Gr. Import. of myc. pot. into Eg. began under Amenoph. III but prb. a bit later Pal.

Now light on B (1st Isr. occup.) clear from prev. period of excav.

5A = 8th C. 7th c.

note : level D probably earlier than A. thinks - between D and C1 = hiatus.

C div. roud 1380 into 2 levels as at R.S

2p. 9 Strata I2 - F = Middle Br. I 1) combed type (= UM 1) caliciform I1 + H and G + F by pot. clearly marked diff. cultures. But number of caract. types last through all 4 strata that we may group them together

On other hand : some types of I - H disappear before G.

not everywhere possi. to dist. betw. I + H. sometimes dist. by conflagr. level. often not

Mallon Biblica 1929 p. 229 (Pl. III, 2 found simi. vase in Dolmen.

Right page

Beit Mirsim I

(AASOR XII, 1932

1p. 7. no exact date for end of E B no scarabs however, since M E scar. found profuse in M B tombs, E B came to end not later than early XX XXth C., when Egypt. scarabs began to be import. in P. from time Sesostris I (cir. 1975-34) cf R.S

Clear evid. that Tell Yahoudij. ware imported in E. during 1st half of [written sideways: v. p.] 12th Dyn. Since this ware is car. form of MB. and level I - H they are not later than 1800 18 [cf. lid Dolmen in Pal. see connection with Troade.]

Margin right: 3

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

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