Manuscript·34 CDF art. 157·1970

Draft preliminary reportClaude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer

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

Scan 15 of manuscript 34 CDF art. 157 (Draft preliminary report), handwritten in French. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Collège de France, Paris, 34 CDF art. 157, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

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who took over the ruinsof the Mycenaean civilisation—, .....1967 X 60 cm ?… its vast Cyclopean enclosure and its clay tablets of a covered with long texts of a script highly X developed evolved, but not X not yet deciphered bear witness to a very refined culture which is also reflected in the jewellery, goldsmith's work, the faience, and the alabaster of the rich funerary offerings deposited returned withdrawn contained<s>/ in the of the in tombs family burial chambers discovered in the same site. and . which has made it famous . K According to recent research our latest<s>/ at Enkomi-Alasia on the other hand On the other hand the Peoples of the North and of the Sea who took foothold the post<s> succession/ on the island as in southern Greece and [illegible] Aegean, the succession of the Mycenaean civilisation derived their prosperity mainly from their metallurgical industry and from the manufacture of weapons of a superior technique of which testified attested proven recently by this<s>/ the discovery recent of one at Enkomi Alasia of four fine weapons long swords of . . . . of 60 cm in the hiding place of a armourer of Enkomi-Alasia containing a few about a hundred other bronzes including a small cult chariot. 7. - Let us not forget either<s>/ that Cyprus the island was famous renowned since high antiquity, X or for its copper deposits ? and even made from the beginning at least of the second as attested [illegible] in the texts of the second millennium,

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

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