Communication to the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, 6 August 1948Claude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer

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were carried through to completion with results satisfactory.

On the northern acropolis of the hill, the only one examined by Delaporte, we carried out a series of soundings and deep excavations at the site of the palace and its periphery We were able to establish stratigraphically that among the sculptures depicting lions, framed in relief, as well as the relief slabs found by chance on the tépé before Delaporte's excavations, belong to different constructions different; this was as much in the topographic as in the chronological sense It was customary on the tépé to reuse the sculptures reused from earlier monuments. This observation was to prove important for explaining the fact that only uncovered by Delaporte in the palace attributed by him to the Neolithic period.

From the stratigraphic point of view, the dating proposed by Delaporte for the palace and the so-called Lion Gate is correct. This is a complex of buildings unfortunately inadequately cleared by him and subsequently completely destroyed by the natives, which is certainly later than the period of the Hittite Empire, 15th-13th centuries.

Upon deepening the research, we discovered at 1Q lower than the so-called Lion Gate a monumental door strictly identical but of slightly more reduced. The two buildings are exactly superimposed. The so-called Lion Gate discovered by Delaporte, as the topographic survey shows, is only the reconstruction of a door earlier, destroyed during a fire attested by the thickness