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 92 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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… p. 4. B. date 20th C ? p. 5 build. brick . pits , possibly bothroi . p. 16 pott. pl. VI, VII fig 6 + 7 21 Imported wares (Kultepe?) fig. 7, no 6. Parallels Striking res. with South W. A. M Good // at Ahlatlibel . Rel. with K. more marked than Kusura A . . - Other // Thermi, Yortan Troy . 236 many rel with Alisar I .

87/217 B may have come to an end in 20th C. 228. In any case, the contents of the houses, antedated a catastrophe : fire, earthquake or invasion, which destroyed part of K. during the period transitional between B & C. C = trans. period see p. 74 C.

p. 25 pott. diff. fr. A + 2 in most of forms, fast wheel is in new techniques . Major. of shapes of K. do not occur at eith Alisar or Bogazk. Distinct resemblances with Late Br. Age wares fr Thermi & Troy . — Links with B? 87/217 = C = Hittite many contacts with monoch. H. wares of Alishar II , Alaca Huyuk , Bogazk

p 232/33 Fortific. (3 periods) , Assigi walls & entrances to period C betw 2000-1000 . Similar fort. sys. p. 235 eh. at Bogaz. Alisar Carchemish Alisar III Too early to be connected with Madduwatta's revolt against Tudhaliya III & Arnuwanda II ? (p. 233) suite p. 74

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

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