Notes and drafts on Alasia IClaude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer

found grouped but today in a central quarter of the town of Enkomi-Alasia, town of Alasia spacious houses whose archaeological furniture contains are provided imported objects from Syria and which containing in their basement of hypogea burial chambers funerary with with dromos and stairs of rectangular plan Their whose and funerary chamber whose architecture in ashlar of these [illegible] tombs to that of characteristic is very clearly related to the great tombs arranged in the in the palace and in the residences of Ugarit of Ras Shamra, tombs and royal and of notables in those of Ugarit and Ras Shamra uncovered of the great palace and of the south palace just as also burial chambers similar of [written sideways: in the residences] found in the also numerous (family) also in numerous residences built by persons of the g court, of rich of and of merchants and shipowners of Ugarit. and of Ugarit. of Ugarit but is unknown However this type of architecture of Ugarit are unknown funerary very particular has never been found until now but which one will search for in vain but that outside Ras Shamra and of Enkomi, and one will search in in the numerous other archaeo- [written sideways: -gical contemporary sites explored] in vain on the Syrian coast and that of the island (1) or elsewhere (1) and at the same period (1) in the Near East Mediterranean (1). have We therefore think that we have found at Enkomi-Alasia houses the quarter of houses where had settled the princes certain exiled from Ugarit with their families of whom the texts found speak at Ras Shamra.

(1) Elsewhere in the the Near East Mediterranean, there are only two built tombs that one could compare to those of Ras Shamra and Enkomi, these are the royal funerary burial chambers of Isopata in Crete (see already Ugaritica I, p. ..) and of the second circle of tombs at Mycenae. The question is studied further on, p. .. - built (1) On the relations of the tombs of Ugarit and Enkomi with the funerary burial chambers royal of Isopata second of Safa and of Isopata in Crete and of the circle of tombs at Mycenae, see also further on .....