Document·34 CDF art. 175·1963

Preliminary report on the excavations at Enkomi in 1963Jacques-Claude Courtois

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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. 175 (Preliminary report on the excavations at Enkomi in 1963), typed in French. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Collège de France, Paris, 34 CDF art. 175, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

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So it is a monument of the Bronze Age, up to this unique tower at Enkomi and in the rest of the island of Cyprus. Above this rock tomb, one had cleared the stratified layers of Cypriot Iron I rich in pottery of the type called wavy line.

In the excavation sector further north studied by Mr Lagarce, one found a hemispherical silver bowl bearing an inscription of the Cypro-Minoan type of a few signs probably followed by numerals, near an overturned larnax, in red earth with four handles.

Among the finds made at various points of the research area, we mention finally two bronze fibulae, of transitional phases from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age; a small gold rosette, in a room that may have served as an amulet or sanctuary, and a number of engraved dome-shaped seals, characteristic of Cypriot Iron I at Enkomi (12th-11th centuries before our era).

J.-C. Courtois.

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