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 34 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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[handwritten: 4.] Tomb IIIc and IIIb [illegible] [handwritten: [illegible]] [illegible] in the southern part of the town; formation of all the doors and windows giving onto the streets [illegible], and reconstruction of walls III and II in mud brick with the elevations [illegible]

Handwritten: (walls III and II)

5. Around 1100, destruction following a part of the inhabitants [illegible] [illegible] corresponding to level II

Handwritten: (level II)

6. Between about 1100 and 1050, last period of relative prosperity of the town: distribution of copper ingots of the Alashiya type [illegible] Third [illegible], new, definitive destruction, followed by the desertion of the town by its inhabitants.

Handwritten: (I)

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

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