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 68 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 68 of 107

Continued from p. 53

… last phase of Br. Age. " (& role of that is monochr. "drab" ware) This pott. = characteristics rather of preced. phase , has 2 distinct ph styles a) red , buff & black unpaint. = Hittite conn. b) painted wares v. very unlike so-called painted Cappadocian like found at Alisar . fig . AJA. 9, 10, —14. Aegean affinities.

6 m earlier Bronze Age level with Hittite Bullshead in terra c.

Hoard of 85 flat axes bronze Hoard at 5m50 + Ärmchenbeil + 1a daggers axe (drawing) rep. + tubes

2nd season . (1936) , AJA 1937). p. 262. So called drab ware represents final phase of 263 Br. Age (fig. 1), still standing on pit for cooking purpose . - Lentoid flask 2 At 2 m level remains of large building , fragm. state of preser., at same level Mycenaean pottery appear in fairly large quantity type of jug (fig. 3.) common to this & 3 m level . Cer. material + bronze of 2 m + 3m level are almost identical. Red & brown usual colour of monochrome wares. Bronze Arrow points . & chisels numerous. — Mycen. pottery uniformly belongs to 2 phase of "Granary style". p. 263/4 speaks of XIIth c. level . — Check against indications . Provisional according to excavators (p. 265 ,

p. 279. Large house uncovered in 1935; continuation of excavations . Pieces of 3m level house? but not said)

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

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