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 35 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.

Unnumbered pageScan 35 of 36

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4. Between 1150 and 1100, against the fight against floods in the lower part of the town; closing of all the doors and windows opening onto the west-east streets, and raising of floors III and II to the level reached by the alluvium.

5. Around 1100, destruction by earthquake of part of the houses of Enkomi corresponding to floor II.

6. Between about 1100 and 1050, last period of relative prosperity of the town; diffusion of copper ingots of the Enkomi type.

7. About 1050, new invasion, final destruction, due followed by the desertion of the town by its inhabitants.

Notes on the transcription: the blue handwritten numerals 4, 5, 6, 7 are shown as typed in the list; the blue scribble over "contre" is a handwritten strike; the word "dû" is a rendering of a visible typed/handwritten insertion over "suivie" and is shown as it appears.

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

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