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 34 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.

Unnumbered pageScan 34 of 107

Loose sheet pasted onto a blank backing sheet over a lined notebook page

Written sideways:

Sent under Khasekhemre Neferhotep (13th king, in 30 to 40 y. XIIIth Dyn) a p antr (1785- 1680 pharaoh recognised at Byblos (p 278)

Hyksos invasion in 2 stages? (p 279)

Hyksos from 1730? foundation of Tanis goes back to 1730 (58 years after end of XIIth Dyn. — First Hyksos wave (already before 1730 p 283 settles in, organises itself and raises fortifications. 284 Entirely unknown, this period maybe 1730 - 1680 , — Then begins conquest of Egypt . — This first corresponds to Egyptian Hyksos epoch allj. then ✝ anarchic epoch : axes p. 285 Greece detaches itself, H. E. civil. Myc " 8. Tanis = c. 1680 - 1580 = D. C. anarchic epoch —

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

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