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Handwritten top right, faint: Phoenix? / Lorna? — illegible name
DRAFT COMMUNIQUE
Professor C.F.A. Schaeffer leader of the French Archaeological Mission left Cyprus yesterday at the conclusion of his ninth [handwritten: tenth] (?) campaign of excavations at the Bronze Age site at Enkomi, which has been equated with Alasia, one time capital of the Island.
With him he took a first consignment of the antiquities discovered at Enkomi which have been allocated to him in a recent division of the objects found in ten years of excavation. They are destined for the Louvre Museum in Paris.
In this division, which was carried out by the Director of Antiquities, the two outstanding finds of these excavations were assigned to the share which remains in the Cyprus Museum. One of these is the two-foot high cult-statue of solid bronze found in 1947, which dates from the twelfth century B.C. and is a unique link between the art of the Mycenaean age and early Greek sculpture. The other is a silver bowl with bull's heads inlaid in gold and black metal, a masterpiece of Mycenaean craftmanship, which has already been exhibited in the British Museum and in Paris.
The bowl was found in a richly furnished and intact tomb of the [handwritten: fourteenth] century. The other contents of this tomb are going to the Louvre, with the exception of one of two gold pectorals embossed with pairs confronted sphinxes.
Professor Schaeffer is expected to release news of the results of the excavation campaign just ended in a few day time.
Handwritten date stamp top right: 1e/XII/57 / 1.XII.57
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain