Document·34 CDF art.25·1 June 1951

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

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

Scan 32 of document 34 CDF art.25 (The new discoveries at Enkomi in Cyprus, excavation season of autumn 1950, and a summary), 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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tradition [illegible] ... Enkomi ... is dated 1150 to

Handwritten: at Enkomi

1100, by ... ... 1080 to 950.

For lack of study of this question, we do not yet have enough information from Enkomi to go on.

We would therefore like, for the moment, to leave it aside from our notre discussion.

To conclude, I summarise the stages of the stratigraphy of the palace Mycenaean found at Enkomi, and of the settlements that were instal- [handwritten: [illegible]] led after the fire, as well as the dates we believe we can propose for the main events in the history of Enkomi from the second half of the 14th c. to the middle of the 12th c.

4. End of the 14th c. to the beginning of the 13th c. (with different dates between 1350 and 1320). Foundation of the palace in the western part of the town and

Handwritten: (see V)

Traces of new settlement at Enkomi.

2. Between 1250 and 1200, reconstruction of the palace destroyed by another great expedition, using the fine glaze style pottery (see VI) which obviously probably falls after the defeat of the Hittites

Handwritten: 1245

= Hittites at Kadesh by Ramesses around 1245 according to the shortest chronology.

Its relation with the Phase [handwritten: [illegible]] of Mycenaean Enkomi and the man of Kition, is possible.

3. Between 1200 and 1150, fire of the palace and dispersal of Mycenaean power at Enkomi following an invasion, and mass occupation of the east coast of Cyprus by the Sea Peoples

Handwritten: (see IV)

perhaps Enkomi being among the Philistines.

It is the invasion which was recounted at the Egyptian frontier by Ramesses III following his naval and land selection of year 6, around 1182, according to the same short chronology.

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

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