Notebook of notes on Cyprus, Gaza, Jericho, Egypt and Syria (chronologies)Claude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer

Continued from p. Tarsus 55

p. 286[?selonRS.(d'aprèsGoldman)… p. 284 dat signale trace de l'intense heat of fire which destroyed the house. [In burnt layer] beautiful bronze sickle, fig. 44 , it is exactly paralleled at R.S. (Syria XVI, 1935, p. 143) say Goldman. Non ] As at R.S., the house of the br. sickle is said to be anterior to Mycenaean tombs of end of XIV^th - XIII C. & posterior to a main burial (charnier) of XVI^th - XV^th C., this places RS sickle house in XIV^th C. As Goldman believe, the level above house is dated by the Puduhepa seal to XIII^th C., the XIV^th is the probable date for that house with sickle of Tarsus.

3^rd season 1937, AJA 1938.

p. 30. Three meter level house: built on fragm. walls of two lower strata after general levelling. -. More drab ware of this 3 m and the 2 m level (fig. 3, 4) p. 46 large house now called House B at auto audessus 3 m level suite des excavations : dated now XIV - XIII^th C. Pottery almost without exception 'drab' ware. p. 54 Granary style of Mycen. ware : first appearance of Myc. ware at Tarsus. Pas de variété plus ancien jusqu'ici. "As far as they have been studied they belong to 'Granary style', dated by Goldman to 1250-1200, with final collapse at 1200 B.C. "Not only do we not have Mycenaean pottery at Tarsus which can be assigned to XIV^th C., but the White Slip Ware of Cyprus, so