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 67 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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Tarsus

large Buildg. same level Mycen. pottery in fairly large | of Granary style quant. (plus local pottery fig. 1. 3). Ceram. mat. from | hittite. 2 m and 3 m level almost identical. Red usual colour, survival of Bronze Age Period. Mycen. We must take for granted that G.K. (Tarsus) if at all was deserted for so. ti." af après 1200. XIIe c. known as disturbed period with wandering bands of robbers & pirates haunting the eastern basin of Med. "The only way out out of pres. dilemma would be to assume that the catastr. of which befell Hitt. E. did not affect ([1200]) & that late | p. 265 Hittite cer. shapes continued in use. But more excav. necess. before can be def. stated.

Sect. A. | 3 m level house with horizontal below 3 m level house, 14 layers | beams, like Ras Shamra. of pebbles - succ. of pavemts or foundations consolidat. Monochr. "drab" pott. did not pen. much below foundat. of 3 m l. at 4 m 50 no admixture at 5 m charac. of pott. as well as houses changed completely (pott. = same as 1st season fig. 15, 22, 23) "There it was wrongly said. to represent … continues

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

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