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… hidden placed in shelter at the bottom of buried in a cavity dug superficially in at . . . cm in the floor I and then and covered with some stones and the earth. The deity, as we have seen, was is seated on a bronze throne, a veritable little masterpiece by a metalworker bronzier of Enk-Alasia, [illegible] from the time of occupation of the city by who, however, by the details of its construction the Sea Peoples. This throne One notices however that this throne and its dimensions was intended originally intended for another statuette. This one fallen on its face This one was found, fallen fallen on its face<s>/ isolated detached and of fallen, and fallen on and on its face the face on floor II at the surface of floor II at 80 cm at 1 m depth, and lower at the at the base at the base at the bottom at the base of an accumulation thick of of debris resulting from the earthquake that devastated the city in the time of floor II. [illegible] Only the throne Only had The throne could be recovered by the rescuers and could serve for a replacement statue. during the works of was replaced in the place of worship clearance. Provided finally could [illegible] of the statue of a statuette of stolen at . . . . . replacement [illegible] the … continues
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain