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 19 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.

Unnumbered pageScan 19 of 26

Figure: none

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9 (top left, handwritten) 9 (top right, handwritten)

Under the heels two thick square-section cleats indicate the use of a pedestal to hold it upright firmly, if we have not yet uncovered any pedestal, for it is not impossible that later we may encounter it on an older floor in which case we would find the reason for this later screenwall.

The proportions of the human body are rendered with an exceptional power and the musculature is accentuated. The bearing face is of great refinement, with the sketchof a slight smile; the nose is straight and the eyes almondshaped. In my view it is not difficult to recognise in the profile of the God a certain resemblance with that of the Mother-Goddess of the Mycenaean ivory from Minetel-Beida found by Mr. Schaeffer. The right profile and the smile are characteristics that we find in both pieces, characteristics that can be attributed only to Mycenaean influences: see the the remarks of Mr. Dussaud in his work "Les découvertes de Ras-Shamra et l'Ancien Testament" 2nd ed. on the ivory of Minet-el-Beida.

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

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