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The fact that the statu During the clearance work, only the throne could be recovered. Provided with a statuette as replacement, it continued to serve the cult during the last period of existence of the city. Then at the time of the exodus of the population, perhaps following an a new trembl earthquake général d'étété particularly devastating (1), the effigy of the god lord seated on his throne, although of very small small dimensions was buried and (height ... cm) and which which es would have allowed it to be could have been carried off easily, was abandoned in its hiding place superficial of this last in floor I, the last level of the city before its abandonment evacuation.
One / depicting respectively / the a young god standing / wearing the Pschent related / to the Syrian Baal, who wore / depicting the god and wearing the loincloth / EgyptianWe have seen that three other divine statuettes of reigning the same period of the Iron I beginning of Iron I were lost at Enkomi-Alasia and [illegible] (pl. )
(1) There is One knows many examples in antiquity and in modern times where of the populations of the old habitat where the inhabitants after an earthquake of particular- / violent and / destructive/ have decided to move the their villages and their towns rather than rebuild the ruins of their former houses: example during the earthquake in the ... in Persia (1968).......
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain