Document·34 CDF art. 157·1970

The XXIst Campaign of Excavations of the French Archaeological Mission at Enkomi-Alasia (Cyprus) in 1970, a preliminary reportClaude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer

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Scan 7 of document 34 CDF art. 157 (The XXIst Campaign of Excavations of the French Archaeological Mission at Enkomi-Alasia (Cyprus) in 1970, a preliminary report), typed in English. The transcription follows.

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The knives and swords of european type, discovered in the Sea-Peoples' occupation levels of Enkomi-Alasia, can be dated with precision, because of their archaeological and epigraphical context, to [handwritten: (the beginning of)] the reign of Ramses III and his contemporary the king Hammourapi of Ugarit. The[handwritten: x] datings will be of great value for the absolute chronology, still in process of elaboration, of similar finds in Northern, Central and Southern Europe.

Cypriot archaeology offers here a new and important contribution to studies [handwritten: +] in the field of European Prehistory.

C.F.A. Sch.

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