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Document·34 CDF art. 174·28 October 1930

Study of a copper slag from a 13th-century BC tomb at Enkomi, CyprusLéon Brun

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

Scan 7 of document 34 CDF art. 174 (Study of a copper slag from a 13th-century BC tomb at Enkomi, Cyprus), typed in French. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Collège de France, Paris, 34 CDF art. 174, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

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……. "As for the sulphides, their treatment was "more complicated; it would seem nevertheless that one had "known very early on the means of producing "metallic copper starting from sulphide ores "which were subjected to a kind of over-oxidation ana- "logous to modern Bessemerization".

The slag that we have studied, perfectly dated by Mr. SCHAEFFER to the 13th century B.C., confirms this opinion and perhaps specifies a date in the evolution of copper metallurgy.

Homécourt, 28 October 1930.

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

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