Letter·34 CDF art. 168-3·16 March 1949

Communication to the Académie on the 1948 Enkomi excavation season, with Dikaios's covering letter to SchaefferPorphyrios Dikaios

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

Scan 16 of letter 34 CDF art. 168-3 (Communication to the Académie on the 1948 Enkomi excavation season, with Dikaios's covering letter to Schaeffer), typed in French. The transcription and translation follow.

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Handwritten: 7

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In a room to the west, as well as in the space to the north of the sanctuary in which the God was found we have recovered several skulls of young bovids and of antlers of deer which seem to be offerings to the God ( some skulls belong to the earliest floors (XII century) but in a part of the building to the west of the sanctuary we found two bovid skulls on a floor earlier, which indicates that the custom of offering bovid heads did not belong only to the phase final of the life of the sanctuary. On this floor we also recovered a bronze statuette of a bovid, an ivory lid and other small objects Among the observations relating to the history of the building we describe, those concerning a catastrophe suffered by the city in the form of an earthquake is the most interesting. This earthquake had already been observed at Enkomi by Mr Schaeffer, who relates it to the catastrophe thus mentioned by Abinatik of Tyre in a letter to Amenophis IV found at Tell-el-Amarna and dated to 1370 to 1350 B.C. The observations made by us confirm the earthquake in a probable manner but

Handwritten: Eg 40

Handwritten: Eg 40a

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

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