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 27 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.

Page ~~49~~Scan 27 of 42

, written diagonally: The fact that the / statue was not / removed from its hiding place / before the exodus of / the population during / after the earthquake of the / of floor II of level II / of the time and during all the / whole period corresponding / to the use of floor I, prior / to the exodus of all / the populationopens anotherp. 49A50Awhich raised at this floor during which this floor was been buried under 45 cm of debris, [illegible] of the sanctuary seriously damaged The cult of the patron of miners and metallurgists of Cyprus has had however here too co begun started from the beginning of the floor the use of the underlying floor jacent jacent IV, the earliest of the sanctuary. jacent IV and was taken up again As the offerings , the offerings in great number recovered in large numbers on floors II and I prove, its cult was resumed prove it, after the earthquake and continued until the and until the time of end of the existence of the town, [illegible] followed by the exodus of all the population population. Finally The third hiding place discovered at Enkomi-Alasia is and on this subject particularly informative. illustrative, and confirmative ... In a private house place of worship passag installed apparently in a house part of a house private whose remains subst survive are (very incomplete and whose clearing has, moreover, not yet has not yet however been completed a hiding place a deity identified representing the by a the supreme god d'Enk of d'Enk. Alasia, of Enkomi Sea Peoples instar related to the Canaanite El or Il of Ugarit, has been (see above, p ...) at the time of the abandonment of the town, was … continues

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

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