Document·34 CDF art.25·1 June 1951

The new discoveries at Enkomi in Cyprus, excavation season of autumn 1950Claude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer

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Typed in French. Every line is transcribed and translated, and the English sits beside the scan.

Scan 14 of document 34 CDF art.25 (The new discoveries at Enkomi in Cyprus, excavation season of autumn 1950), typed in French. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Collège de France, Paris, 34 CDF art.25, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

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It is significant that after their time the Tjeker and the Shekelesh disappear from the contemporary lists. The Peoples of the Sea, who nevertheless continued to actively trouble the Egyptians during the time of Ramesses III.

It is probable that this was the doing of Egypt, which brought about the establishment of the position of the Achaeans and Ekwesh.

This will not be discussed here; it was probably at this moment, i.e. towards the end of the 13th c., that the transition and final Mycenaean phase begins Cyprus; moreover, they, which the trading posts of Palaepaphos (?) [illegible] the [illegible] of Enkomi. This recognition of the palace of Enkomi could be connected with the incident previously complained of at that time. The last king built and extended ... [illegible] the city [illegible] Ugarit (?) [illegible].

In the other reconstruction against non-vacant Hadhadatta, published by Mr Goetze, he makes a central clay seal and in his at the capture of Cypprus by two Nehean chiefs, one of whom bears the name Atarsiah. The other is designated by the title of chief of the country of Alasia.

The facts related in this document agree ... [illegible] with the archaeological observations, i.e. the destruction (deliberate?) ... of the reconquest of the palace of Enkomi to the fact that of this duration.

It ends in the battle of a new invasion, this time chosen by the city and extremely destructive.

The palace and the whole monumental quarter destroyed, it causes to perish bobtant livrée aux flammes.

The objects indicate that all these ruins were undertaken on the … continues

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