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 35 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.

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of the corresponding period of the great city, Cypriot Iron I or the period of occupation of Enkomi-Alasia by the Peoples of the Sea. Since the beginning commencement of l their settlement in Cyprus of and of the organisation of their public and or and private places of worship, in chronological order from corresponding to the period of use of floors IV and III which which cover to about 1m 20 50 average depth the ruins of the town of the end of the Late Bronze or underlying Final Mycenaean (sol. ---), during the XII th and XIth c their dwellings and their sanctuaries had to be rebuilt or refitted on three occasions. They three times to be been abandoned, definitively, p after a fourth catastrophe that occurred with during the floors and of the level I which which correspond to the level corresponds to the surface present of the ch of the vast site. The floors From bottom to top, i.e. in chronological order of the The raising layers events the floors IV and covering III having only a thickness (between 1m 20 and (between 1m 75 and 1m 10 of depth, according to the places the spots), total<s>/ … continues

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