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

The slag that we have studied, particularly 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.

Handwritten: signature

Handwritten: Brun

Handwritten: 31200

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