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| [page number: 49]for course Collège de F | = Draft of Alasia I, (non-final version) p. 523 sq |
, circled: occurred at the time of floor II and during that it remained in its in its last shelter throughout the period corres pondant au of the use of the floor I, préalable à l' exode de toute la populati ,The cult of the patron of miners and metallurgists of Cyprus had, however, here too begun from the use of the underlying floor IV , the oldest of the sanctuary covering at a depth of 1 m 90 a place of worship religious centre abandoned at the end of the preceding period of the Final Mycenaean (floor V at -2 m). As On the other hand, as the numerous offerings recovered on floors II and I the prove, his cult of the god of miners was resumed after the earthquake of level II (and continued until the end of the city's existence. The fact that the statue has no longer not been removed from its hiding place after the earthquake could seem to indicate could, as we have said, indicate that the priests and servants of the sanctuary having forced who made arranged the with such care hiding place so carefully could not return to the site or where these were so severely devastated to such a point as to make recovery impossible. One could evidently also admit that the period short after final of the city<s>/ after corresponding to the use of the floors II and I preceding the final exodus of the population of the city was so charged with anxieties and threats that that it had been judged preferable to keep the statue of the god Nergal-Reshef in its hiding place, this god being supposed in any case to have being deemed had an activity underground, being considered as the master of the kingdom of the dead (cf. above, p.... ).
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