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 9 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.

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researches in the notebooks / of previous excavators) / See also Sjöqvist remark / in Prob. Late Br. Age. )… also one of the most confused & crowded. Contained besides [Cretan] vase several unique gold & silver ornaments. Also serie of potters mark which appear to be numerals belonging to a closely contemporary Cretan script. At least 3 burials. Tomb 6 was adjacent to tomb 322 excavated by Swed. Exp. : Chamber B de tomb 6 touche tomb 322, broken in during excavation, see fig. 8. (Pour les fouilles antér. à Lapithos, voir Gjerstad etc. Sw. C. E. I, p. 33-162. For pottery see E. Gjerstad, Studies on Preh. Cyprus, 1926, p. 48-87. (« study based mostly on See Myres, Handbook).

The Minoan fragments layed under other native fragments in the chamber to the right of the entrance. « The position to the right as one enters appears to have been the first choice. In chamb. with only one [interment], such as 6 C p. ex. the remains are regularly to the right. Cf: SCE I, L. 301, 305, B, 306 C, 307 B. In chambers of several burials, where niches have been cut on only one side, that is regularly the right (SCE, L. 307 A, 313 D, 319, B. L. 322 E. Amer. Lapithos excav. provided further examples & Dikaios has noticed same preference at Vounous. According to their contents, chamb. B & C were in use after the middle of the Early Bronze Age. A bowl with painted ornament found in B an is unique, apparently a characteristic of the first painted ware of the Bronze Age in Cyprus. A partial parallel from Crete is of interest, from Pyrgos.

Drawing: three bowls, the left one with dots and wavy lines, the middle and right ones plain with spout or handle; labels: L. 6 B(8); Pyrgos

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

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