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in the 13th century, despite all the reverses suffered, the town enjoys a real prosperity. This is no doubt due to the fact that it possesses a good port on the east coast of the island, offering a safe shelter against the west winds, and a copper and bronze industry long renowned.
According to the present state of our research, we believe we must place the end of the town of Enkomi and its definitive abandonment towards the end of the 11th century, around 1050.
This is the earliest date that the title of the note attributed to the Enkomi Library
The materials and information from which it derives, suspected of many of an earlier period, perhaps from a lady of a town, [illegible] otherwise, perhaps indeed a certain of the event.
But riveted to this guide, as we call it at Enkomi, for the period considered after the destruction of the town, as a result of the disappearance of its inhabitants, and the whole of the chronologies [illegible] into one result, we cannot fix the exact limit or approximately.
However, by extending the date of 1050, for the definitive date and the disappearance of the town, whose limits we currently doubt Enkomi, we believe we can locate in it the indications currently available.
If every region includes a date within the limits of the 12th century for the end of Enkomi, emerges from the interpretation as to a doubt which of the traditions relating to the Achaean colonization of Cyprus by Teucros primary brought after the taking of Troy and to the foundation of the city of Salamis, considered as the sanctuary of Enkomi.
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain