Manuscript·34 CDF art.17·1954–1969

Notes and drafts on Alasia IClaude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer

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Handwritten in French. Every line is transcribed and translated, and the English sits beside the scan.

Scan 13 of manuscript 34 CDF art.17 (Notes and drafts on Alasia I), handwritten in French. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Collège de France, Paris, 34 CDF art.17, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

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… calling as witness the agreements decisions made by written the gods both of Alasia and of Ugarit (1).

pa nowhere else | com a Enk. Ala | at this period in Cyprus | and concentrated at | E.A. in a single | quarter of the town.and again It is at Enkomi-Alasia that we have just discovered in a quarter in the centre of the town, pluri of large carefully built houses provided each with a funerary burial chamber of an architecture set in the subsoil and built of ashlar in accordance with the tradition of the great tombs with with stepped dromos and vault in of Ugarit (. There is without any doubt , and the st Syrian origin of numerous objects found among in these houses attest it, of the dwellings where these princes of Ugarit lived accompanied by their families and servants of whom certain texts p found at Ugarit list the composition

(1) Need to ment enum here or in the article of on the Syrian tombs. at Enk. all the texts and letters of Ug. and mention the rel. in Ala and Ug.

In this context

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

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