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Tombs in the centre of the town. -
The third part of the XVIII e campaign was devoted to resuming the systematic and stratigraphic exploration of the centre-west quarter lying between the 5th and 6th streets, immediately north and south-east of the imposing Building ... (cf. Hamdi-Atlantide, I, p. 239 ).
On the occasion of a large architectural study trench of the Iron I level, it was possible to examine in detail the three final layers of this period. Several hearths cluttered with incomplete pottery elements, including a fluted jar with five handles on one of the handles, were uncovered. The houses of importance (...) a use according to the architecture of these three clay vessels, likewise when ebonite weights of three fixed boxes, 20 and 60 grams, fibulae, coppers, fragments of murex with bronze charcoal, a handle attachment presenting a great typological diversity, a complete fragment in incomplete copper, and for the dyptique of Dipnelete Iron I, two seal-type stamps of en dios and a steatite cylinder with two figures, of the period of the Waves of the Sea. This ensemble constitutes in an unprecedented way the doctrine ... (?)
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(1) Taking part in this research were Messrs J.-C. Courtois, J. Lagarce and Miss B. Courtois, of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, J.-Y. Ritzenthaler, technical attaché at the Collège de France, E. R. Ferrer, architect and qualified engineer, and Mrs K. Ferrer, photographer, K. Kiefand, seconded by the Department of Antiquities of Cyprus to the Mission.
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65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain