Notebook of notes on Cyprus, Gaza, Jericho, Egypt and Syria (chronologies)Claude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer

Byblos (continued) See:

5^th Camp. at Byblos (1926). Syria VIII. 1927 M. Dunand.

p. 94 Down to c. 2 m sterile excavation. At this level met with some slabs isolated, same plan as paving recorded 1922. Vast paved esplanade between the 2 Montet temples. - Remains of constr. altar ? 2 deposits jars + sixty br. + 60 br. figures + dagger p. 95 etc. primitive aspect - smears indigenous works + 2 bulls - Jar intact related to the Thinite period (cf. Morg. Orgin t. I, p. 191. II, 160) also some analogies with Susian vessels I^st style. - 1^st jar = Old Kingdom. End 3^rd mill. on paving ! p. 97 Stratum Old Kingdom characterised by many sherds decor combed ; red burnished pottery VI^th dyn. many inscripti. Kheops ? p. 99 Middle Kingdom only some slabs Old Kingdom walls very large - p 100 According to the 2 Egyptian and Syrian temples which are at upper level (of Old Kingdom) would form only a single sanctuary built on the ruins of the temple old. The remains which en survive (of the old temple) are laid out on the same horizontal plan and same orientation.

7^th Camp. Syria 1929. p. 206. There is no reason to distinguish 2 temples at Byblos, but only one, attested from IV^th mill. ; burnt at end of Old Kingdom was replaced in the XII^th dyn. period by a new temple remained used av. numerous remani. until Roman epoch. 207 New finds without preparation under paving