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 66 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 66 of 107

fig. 22 + 23."Three Meter level House", lary buildg. with lentoid flask as found in Cyprus & - Ras Shamra in late Bronze Age context. mixed with early Iron Age pott. If 2 seals found here are in stratigr. posit. : 1200 BC would be post quem for layer directly under soil (2 m level) & for 3 m level with buildg post quem date between conquest of Cilicia & fall of Hittite Emp. around 1200 BC. Room E with late Br. Age Pott. by stratigr. relat. to house '3 m level' & corresp. with Mounds at Segfiye & Kabarsa in neighb. which ceased to be inhab. at the end of Bronze Age Stray finds: Babyl. Cylinder with ded. d'un Tariuil to Ninsubur. prob. betw. Hamm. & Kassite occup. (fig. 31. Section Four: , layers Islamic Roman less clear Hellenistic Cypr. Iron Age pottery level Statuette Crystal attr. very shortly after 1000 BC Partially exc. of large build. earlier destroyed by tremendous conflagrat. (Hilani type house) nothing else can be said

2nd Season. AJA 1937, p. 262 s/s. [Excavations at Gözlü Kule, Tarsus, 1936.

Section A at 2 m level rem. of

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

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