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 93 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 93 of 107

Transitional period betw. B & C. p. 229 Three people had met with violent deaths in this part of town: a conflagrat. had overwhelmed the houses. - It is tempting to attribute this disaster to the people who introduced the culture of period C, or to the makers of the transitional ware. Troubled interlude ..

p. 237 = Depas: fig 14 (18) a only appr date be given as found in Troya 2-IV.

C[?mitB ware gently dies out, replaced by C ware. Red Cross (-fig. 14 (13) = Alishar bowls = link ] with Troy V, dated prov. round 2000 BC At end of transition per. & beg. of C, remarkable increase of coarse dom. ware. p. 240 rel. in pol. with Bogazk. & Alisar see MDOG etc. p. 240

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

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