Letter·34 CDF art. 168-4·1947

Drafts: letter to Megaw and "Draft for Announcement"Claude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer

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

Scan 4 of letter 34 CDF art. 168-4 (Drafts: letter to Megaw and "Draft for Announcement"), handwritten in English and French. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Collège de France, Paris, 34 CDF art. 168-4, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

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extremeacquired . that they date back chronologically right at the beginning of Iron. The bronge disappeared again in Cyprus. For all these reasons we have proposed to fix the terminus post quem of Cypriot Iron I around 1050 before our era ,

[margin left: terminus that the tombs 6, 13 and 16 of Enkomi and similar finds have probably not reached.]

periodWith reference to the classification of Mr. Gjerstad of 1926 ourthe Cypriot periods II and III of our scheme corres (1450 - 1200) corresponded therefore to , Our period This named Cypriot Iron I (1200-1050) therefore corresponds to the Late Ct Cypriote III (1200 - 1000) of the first classification of Mr Gjerstad. , [illegible] its~~ its

The Cypriot Iron I (1200-1050) corresponds thus to Late Cypriote III (1200-1000) of the first classification of Mr Gjerstad More recently , following the excavations of the Mission Swedish on the acropolis of Idalion , the same author had proposed a division tripartite of this period . This is valid for the architectural development the particular history of this site , but we have believe recognised that it cannot cannot be applied be applied ) to the whole of the finds of the beginning of the Iron recovered on the island .

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