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was in charge / of the / conductedwhich had / struck the / town during the / 12th c.in accumulated ? buried5who had invadedthe island at the beginningof the 12th c. B.C.as X the Egyptian texts Egyptian inscriptions / and the of Karnak and / of Medinet Habu and thein cuneiform / recently discovered textsat Ras Shamra-Ugaritthe reportX attest it4.- South of the same east-west street of the town, Mr J. C. Courtois has undertaken the exploration of a series of houses, of the post-Mycenaean period. Here four levels floors<s> of habitation/ (floors), separated by layers of debris, could be identified. They bear witness to the two earthquake destructions by earthquakes of earth and ofother catastrophes, of floods in parti- cular. After each catastrophe, the floors of the houses were redone, so that they were at the raised level of the streets. During these works, the inhabitants salvaged (drew) from the ruins debris everything that was still usable, which explains the relative poverty of finds in these layers. On the other hand, the unusable pottery debris remained accu- mulated under the walls collapsed and the collapsed roofs. According to the stratigraphic observations it appears<s> is certain/ It seems that these catastrophes themselves have occurred succeeded one another at fairly close intervals within a fairly short span of time. It follows that the occupation of the town by the Peoples of the North and of the Sea did no doubt<s>/ hardly last more than four generations. It ended already at the beginning of the 11th c. with the emigration of the inhabitants towards a the nearby coastal site, of Salamis, where there arose later Salamis. This coastal town was endowed, in the period Greek and Roman, with great temples and build- ings, and became, under the names of Salamine, then (?) Constantia, the capital of the island, of the periods Greek and Roman.
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain