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MILETUS Milesian archaeological layer, destroyed in a violent fire – In short, there are side by side at Miletus two pottery types, one of which is absolutely absent from Ras Shamra, (III C 1 bowls) and the other also absent until now from the whole of the excavations and finds of Cyprus (krater with horses) .... In the context of the accounts of the Hittite, Ugaritic and other historical texts on the disturbances on the eve of the fall of RS and of the other cities, this observation appears to us entirely of capital importance, without one being able to explain it yet in a satisfactory manner, (apart from an exploration geographically uneven).
(to be resumed – after returning to RS.
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain