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 72 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 72 of 107

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… p. 77 Spindle bottle ? of local type ( fig. 39 ), refers to spindle. bottles of R. S..

Through dkl. visions, seeing is confused. Troie of Troy verge place, instead of des Mächtig small castle instead of small castle etc. – Terminol. beib. importance of Troy far overestimated. Reall. Vorg. Ebert. XIII, p. 442 et seq. by G. Karo.

Identification with Homeric Troy first by the French traveller Lechevalier ( end of XVIIIe ). Small excavations by the Austrian J. G. v. Hahn (1864), Schliemann & Dörpfeld (1870-94) 9 main layers. I–VII, prehist., VIII Greek, IX Roman.

From layer I, only small piece in dark grey NS grave. over natural ground exposed. houses surrounded. fortification. hand-made monochrome greyish-yellow or black pottery touch on Urfirnisware & early Minoan, not with Neol. which is missing in Tr. Relation to the prehistoric tumulus of Protesilaos & to Macedonian tumuli, the Anatolian Yortan. Simple white-filled linear patterns. Stone tools nephrite & obsidian. No metal so far. After highly developed bronze cult of Sch. II is for I copper to be presumed, which also mentioned. Comparisons to presume.

Layer II or citadel. Most important. Narrow extent massive citadel wall, with treasure finds in first rank Aegean. Structures to be placed. 3. Periods. In 1 & 2 Per. outward vorspr. outer walls. Became in 3 Per. in ring wall incorporated. In the W. towers, postern.

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

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