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 71 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 71 of 107

Margin top: Tarsus . 37

RSvarious Mycenæancommon at R.S., where it occurs togeth with Mycen., is represented by only a very few sherds. To the theory that the finds made in Cilicia « correspond to the magnificent finds of (products which have been discovered in Syria during the French excavations in Lattaquian (E. Gjerstad, R. Arch 1934 , p. 199 !) Tarsus gives no support, nor have we reason to believe that Cilicia was a one of the Mycenaean outposts on the Levant." (Gjerst p. 201 ). It is true that Mycenaean sherds of the XIVth C. have been picked up at Kazanli and I myself found one small fragment in the sounding made at Domuz Tepe, but they are a mere handful, which present no parallel with the masses of pottery and other objects of Mycenaean type found in Cyprus and Syria. ». ( enterremt. de theorie de Gjerstad et Wainwright ! )

4nd season 1938, AJA, 1940, p. 73 et suiv.

p. 75. Suite excav. building 3 whole level probably a Hitt temple of Hittite type. p. 76 Pottery from the 2nd & 3rd levels again the heavy monochrome brown to red ware, called "drab", chief ceramic hall-mark of Hittite levels. Mycen. pottery as usual fragmentary & of 'Granary' class with exception of a few sherds of earlier L. H. III type. Contre local imitation. Herd of Pied p 76 de pilgrim bottle comme RS (Fig 26) dessin … continues

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

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