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It is a question of an earthquake which destroyed the houses of floor II, and whose effects were also observed by [handwritten: Mr] Daniel at Curium, and more recently by Mr Furumark at Sinda.
The houses collapsed or damaged at Enkomi, moreover, were promptly repaired or rebuilt.
In one of the houses of the time of floor II, a group of bronzes comprising a seated deity on a throne in the form of d'oeuf an armchair was buried during the earthquake.
During the searches made in the debris after the catastrophe, only the throne could be recovered by its owners.
The statuette, on the other hand, remained buried under the debris where we found it again.
The throne was then fitted with a new statuette whose dimensions however fit the seat only imperfectly.
Thus completed, the bronze resumed its place in the new house built over the levelled ruins of the one which had xx collapsed
Finally the [handwritten: new] statuette and its throne were entrusted to a hiding place arranged in floor I, when the population of Enkomi began to put its valuables in safety as the danger approached that was [handwritten: indeed] finally to bring about the final destruction of the city, and the loss of a whole series of similar hiding places, found in level I, at Enkomi.
Characterised from the ceramic point of view by the pottery of the _granary style_, now dominant and mixed with technically degenerate examples of the Sub-Mycenaean style, the last level of Enkomi corresponding to floor I, des habitations is astonishingly rich in bronze objects and of ivory.
Indisputably, in the second half of the 12th c. and at the beginning
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