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They in several levels + were part of constituted, so to speak, a of an industrial quarter of the City "quartier "industriel" de la cité. Potters' kilns and installations forge? bronze-working and smithing workshops found and of metallurgists could be studied The abundant The discovery in their in detail. The pottery with decoration found in abundance, found at and decorated with a pattern of wavy lines of abundant had been pottery ... painted and bronze tools, and sometimes occasionally already in iron, metal still sparingly used at this period, allow a dating to the 12th century B.C.
, written diagonally and crossed out: (at the beginning of the century which had seen the town [?fortoccupied / was to see be destroyed / during by one of the waves branches / the invasion of the Peoples of the North and of the sea of which / another branch by which was advancing was advancing [illegible] / and of the Sea which was advancing / land army and its fleet along the Egyptian coast / in the direction of the / Nile valley.)]
In the centre In the same of this quarter of little people popular a building was cleared was cleared, at 30 cm barely below the present surface, a building which is marked distinguished by the thickness of the walls and by its entrance flanked by wooden columns set on substructures bases cylindrical in (drawing) stone. On a gargoyle in in stone limestone found among the remains of the collapsed roof a short inscription was recorded, in signs of the of latest Cypriot type attesting that the script so far still undeciphered, was practised used in the town until the moment of its abandonment, following an earthquake of particularly devastating kind, and its transfer to the neighbouring coast of Salamis.
Margin right, written diagonally: Les fouilles ont dû être arrêtées vers 2 m de profondeur / ici à a la base des niveaux de / d'hab du XIIe et du XIIIe siècle, / où apparaissent les des murs et des / fondations du XIIIe et XIVe s d'une ville plus ancienne / d'Alasia dont l'exploration sera / entreprise à la prochaine / campagne.
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain