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.

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of the general plan as well as the foundations of the ostré plan do not present the façade of the palace.

The violent subject and more especially The relations with Enkomi are moreover so frequent, as well as Egypt and Anatolia, do not provide us with any element of comparison.

The materials used, remarkable, consisted in the concrete floor, since the Ajoutée, fundamentally solid of the original construction, but the wall V, cut from the natural surface, allow us to fix the date of construction of the palace, between 1550 and 1450 before our era.

It remained in use for quite a long time until about 1450, some attached the Mycenaean and Cypriot pottery, the bronzes and the small objects.

It was then that these natives, surprised by an attack, were expelled or strangled.

The fine tableware was covered and re-tiled without change by its sub-groups, which bring out the fine Mycenaean pottery of final style or style récent, made, lamps in detail, like that of Zéliasse.

It is therefore from Rhodes, and from a workshop of the Dodecanese region, that the new motifs of Enkomi must have come.

These events which took place between 1450 and 1200 do not concern the Cypriot plain .

The trails of the multiplications present in front of the large plateau at the lacustrine stage, the present group drawn from this penetration corresponding to the final Mycenaean phase or Late style.

It is important to point out that the new approaches to the town, installed in our palace at Enkomi, have strongly the plan with a new familial, together in not sufficiently-floor, and the bronzes objects or which had been built there.

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