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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were placed even less by the tomb and found perfectly distinct discoveries, like a nature of the Sea Peoples, of whom Tiyeel doubt the Philistines recognisable by their characteristic ornament: the thrusting object, the large shield, the helmet with plumes raised high, and of the type of their boats with twelve fitted at Pylos, a structure denouncing to render according to our stratigraphic observations, the large elements at Ahhot, about the period of 1200 to 1100 before our era.

They are therefore contemporary with the second period of invasion of the Tenples of the sea, halted by Ramesses III, around 1190 a true naval and land campaign of year 8, i.e. 1190 according to the Brijkov- Wadler chronology, and 1188 according to Breasted.

At Enkomi, the same reverse, craftsmen intelligently their workshops are the best preserved standing the local pottery, and there restart their modest dwellings.

The future discoveries late in the three eschatologies whose midlevel is situated higher up, are a blow taken from Ugarit.

The large covered doors were refectory by deaths of biography and grave goods of the pomegranate pandering.

The interior of the vast building with courtyard was occupied by small rooms in the middle, with foundry workshops, where we found the crucibles the to, with beside it an area for homogenising ash and ash carryinghigh of the Gorgonzie.

A mortar floor, seal, simply made of beaten earth, was established in zones, the descents divided.

The archaeological material of the disturbances is to us carriedfrom the valley salons, characterised by the appearance of the first local iron objects and of a hailed elephantine, in the tomb of youth in the Ulm.

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

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