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characteristic of the mines of Cyprus and that the trade maritime of the Cypriotes, and Aegeans and Phoenicians has spread across most of the countries bordering the Mediterranean Eastern, as well as in pharaonic Egypt from the 15th century and down to the 12th-11th c. B.C. The god with the ingot, wearing helmet and greaves, brandishing a spear and equipped with a shield ~~of which the statue has just been uncovered in the French excavations in Cyprus seems~~ thus presents itself as the protective god of Alasia as much as of its production mines of copper, the wealth of the island. The find sheds new light on the archaeology and history religious of the period still so obscure after the disappearance around 1200 of the Mycenaean Bronze Age civilisation of Cyprus and of Greece and before the dawn of civilisation Greek. C. F. A. SCHAEFFER
Alasia, 6. X. 1963. [margin bottom: like Athena protectress of Athens]
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain