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Before the removal of these objects, one hesitates between the possible identifications: sling bullets or weights? Les balles de fronde l' emportent, after removal and examination. Another find, even more important of this Friday 21 October: among the very abundant and remarkable pottery material of Iron I (wavy line and Late decorated III) recovered from pit 28 (cf. notes of J. Lagarce), the surprise was great to recognise a \*sherd covered with signs chypro-minoens peints. This discovery significant indicates that the practice of writing on pottery vessels, known especially in the pre-Hellenic Aegean, also existed at Enkomi - Alasia in Cypriot Iron I (there already existed, I believe, a few examples coming from the American excavations at Kourion and perhaps also from Katydata (to be checked)
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain