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the elongated furniture of the tombs found at Enkomi, or Late Cypriot Rec- 1, with its ceramic handles, is also found in Crete, but not the originals coming from the excavations, but not the stages hieroglyphic of the accounting tablets of Knossos, of the writing of Linear B style.
Tombs earlier than the period between 1250 and 1100 before our era, these tablets are contemporary with the period in which it must, according to our work, now attribute the copper ingots coming from Enkomi.
The distribution of these ingots, from Cyprus as far as Greece and to Syria (perhaps Tarsus should also be added?) [illegible] the west as far as Sicily and Sardinia (and perhaps as far as Italy [handwritten: signature]) [illegible] the map of the sea ...
We thus arrive at the conclusion that it is Cyprus from the sea, and more particularly to those who had not returned from Knossos at the beginning of the 12th c., which must be attributed the distribution of copper ingots of the type now known from Enkomi.
If the new convents of Knossos at the beginning of the 12th c., heavily weighed down for four or five expeditions on one side, as Enkomi external intervention did not disturb, they had to struggle to face a certain threat, of which neither the nature nor the name was known, nor more or or as much as its. The flooding during the rainy season, in 4. western quarters of the town, situated downhill.
Indeed, since the subsequent remodellings which rendered the ruins of the palace on the occasion of the installation of foundry workshops during the period of the 12th c., corresponding to Level IV, we observed a kind of hydrolysis, transformation spreading, becoming interesting before and
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain