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Communication to Mr Parrot for the Commission des Fouilles
Handwritten: 26.3.63
Handwritten: Paris, Louvre Museum, Department of Oriental Antiquities
Handwritten: 4 Rue de Lille?
Handwritten: Showcase at Enkomi-Athens, 1962
In the island of Cyprus, at the site of Enkomi, where the Archaeological Mission French has recovered the ruins, valiantly cleared by several expeditions earlier archaeological expeditions, of the capital of the island of the Bronze Age (1600 to 1200 before our era) the excavations were pursued in the last years of the ruin. Several levels of destruction and contraction mark the agony of the civilisation of the Bronze Age around 1200, on the approach of the great upheavals accompanied by new devastating peoples who shook the eastern world from the countries bordering the eastern Mediterranean, as far as Egypt.
The excavations have shown (or remain) ... [illegible] [handwritten: 1962]
...tation funéraire, has nevertheless been less devastated than the neighbouring countries of Cyprus, no doubt because of its situation near Syria and Palestine, in the course of its historical evolution and its events ... [illegible] ... These ruins of Alasia exploited at Ahiram ... [illegible] ... the city ... [illegible] ... Hittite ... [illegible] ... in the 13th century ... [illegible]
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Handwritten: C.F.A. Schaeffer
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain