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Résumé en langue anglaise
SUMMARY
Preliminary note.- M. R. DUSSAUD examines the principal arguments in favor of the identification of the town discovered by M. SCHAEFFER at Enkomi with the Capital of Cyprus : Alasia mentioned in the Tell el Amarna letters and others cuneiform inscriptions of the II nd millenium B.C. (Boghazkeng, Ras Shamra, Mari), as well as in the old Testament.
Chapter I.- Additional information is published here on my first excavation at Enkomi(1934) which led to the discovery of the town site ( 1)
In the preliminary report of the seasons of 1946 and 1947 which follows the organisation of the French Archaeological Expedition is explained ( 2 à 4). Stratigraphical research and new finds in the neighbourhood of the Maison des Bronzes ( 5) reveal that the town site is stratified according to three main levels. The top layers mountain the ruins of the Early Iron Age town of the XII th -XI th c.B.C. (Chypriote Fer I) 1200-1050 B.C. or Late Cypriote III. They are sometimes stratified in two sub levels and distinguished from the earlier levels, by an ash layer. Immediately below, the remains of buildings belong to the Late Bronze Age (Chypriote Récent I à III : 1550-1225 or Late Cypriote I and II), or second level. At several places, this second level is separated by a destruction layer from the third and earliest level [handwritten: h]itherto found àt Enkomi. It belongs to the Middle Bronze Age (Chypriote Moyen II and III : 1900-1600 or Middle Cypriote II and III), the
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