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[printed: CYPERNEXPEDITIONEN (THE SWEDISH CYPRUS EXPEDITION) Storgatan 41 STOCKHOLM (Sweden) Tel. 62 88 57]
May 1, 1938Dear Mr. Daniel,
I am very ashamed of myself, but now you will at last have an answer on your kind letter from Crete.
It is very interesting to hear that you consider your period I in Bamboula as end of L. C. II and roughly contemporary with my Enkomi tombs 6, 18, and 19. To me that seems very reasonable, and I am especially glad that you, too, feel inclined to call it L. C. II in a late stage rather than L. C. III. As you know from my material I have no Wh. Slip or Hand-made red Base-ring in L. C. III. That characterizes in Enkomi the break between the two periods, also so cleanly marked there by the change of burial customs (chamber-tombs > shaft-tombs). That makes it impossible to me to call the three Enkomi tombs in question anything but L. C. II. For the absolute chronology I place the latest chamber-tomb (18, 2nd burial) to round about 1200, so that seems allright for Bamboula and us both.
You have got Late Minoan I-II sherds in Bamboula.
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