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 18 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.

Scan: Collège de France, Paris, 34 CDF art. 168-3, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

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as we have not yet reached the levels of the XIV siècle nous n'avons pas encore pu observer du point of stratigraphic view the effects of this shock. The Photographs which I present on this subject ( fig [handwritten: 11 and 12] are of particular interest: the first shows two large ashlar blocks( [handwritten: fig 14] ) split from top to bottom. The second shows a large block superimposed on a other displaced from its bed by the shock(fig 13 ). Such are in their broad outline, the results of our first campaign of excavations at Enkomi. As regards our most xxxxxxxx important find, the bronze statue, it seems that it should bring new data on the statuary of the high period both in its art and in its unparalleled size. It represents a God standing with a headdress of animal skin horned with horns of a bull. The attitude is resemblance frontal although the left leg is slightly advanced: the left arm is folded across the chest while the right arm is bent at the elbow and the forearm and the hand with fingers outstretched and joined, the palm turned towards the earth, advances in a gesture which seems to indicate dominion and the divine will. The body is clothed in a loincloth edged with fringes and held at the waist by a thick belt.

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

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