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In Cyprus and particularly at Enkomi, they settle en masse and completely transform the milieu, which first undergoes a decline of considerable civilisation, before regaining prosperity and balance at the end of a century or two.
From the period corresponding to floor III, first half of the 13th c., begin to mingle with the remains of Late Cypriot I, the evidence of the arrival of a new foreign element, in the form of types industrial types unknown at Enkomi, in particular a coniaue [illegible] of vessels in the so-called krater style, or Pottery style. Hamie observes in Cyprus, improved at our excavations at Enkomi, this pottery, which we see, thanks to H. Wace's excavations at the Gate of the Lions, contemporary with the fall of Mycenae, and had its last distribution in Argolid.
This time the comparisons do not lead us, no doubt, for the pottery of close style towards Rhodes, but aim a little beyond the indications [illegible] centre of Mycenaean pottery.
If the comparison is valid, and the reliability of the chronology Pottery style of mais III B I [illegible] at Enkomi, by vgliourta this hypothesis, to render the team, we shall have there a means of coming to aid the early chronology of Ugarit.
The fall of Mycenae was thus to be placed, indeed, between 1200 and 1180 before our era, a date which explains [illegible] the metamorphosis the event of the invasion of the Peoples of the 3rd dynasty.
It arrives at the last level of Enkomi, to which floor I corresponds, whose end coincides with the final abandonment of the town.
But on the other hand, I must point out an event which also affected other Mycenaean urban centres besides Enkomi in the eastern region of Asia.
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