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My Dear Colleagues, I have the pleasure of to inform you that the 16th Campaign of excavation of that the Expedi ti Arch. Fr. d'Enk-Alasia has /commen comm its research of re among the underground ruins of the anc Capital of the Bronze Age of the island of Cyprus fifteen days ago, and the the excavations are continu p intense heat (between 38 and 39° a- 40° in the sun ° C at midday ). and under my . My collaborators and there is We<s> with the/ directi and with the collaboration of quat French archaeologists (Mr and Miss Courtois of the CNRS, MM. Lagarce and Nicolardot ) and of two foreign members, one English of the Univ. of Aberdeen (M. Johnstone / Health and morale are excellent and of the other Italian of the Univ. of Pavia (M. Tamassia. (In the central courtyard On fitted benches (of a 17m long sanctuary of the last period final (of the exis of the City ( beginning of the Iron Age, 12th-11th c. B.C.) of which the first elements found last year were presented to the Academy at its sitting of 31 May by my collaborator M. J.C. Courtois (discovery of figurines in the form of centaurs with head two-headed) , were had lain a om brought to light in the middle of various pottery, some of which painted, placed on benches along of (numerous skulls and horns of numerous bulls , of of the wall blen a ta chax deer and of other animals both domestic as well as wild, having been their arrangement indicates that it is a matter of sacrificed to the deity .... A statue ....
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