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 86 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 86 of 107

1st City (suite) AJA 1937, p. 555 transitional phase between I & II. Buildg of late stage of I destroyed by conflagration p. 555-56, Essential continuity between T. I & II marked by unbroken ceramic tradit. Rare shd of very thin, highly polished & beautiful lustrous red surface, only not yet found in late I, but in transitional layers. & early II.

p. 560 Immed. below II, 4 m deposit of I rich in pott. 30 implements in bone, several idols, whorls & 1 flint knife & 2 bronze or copper pins & a javelin point same metal.

p. 566 complain of meagre results for study I (late layers & early strata II. Pourquoi , voir p.

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

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