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It was therefore a change of regime, during which the dynasty which had reigned at Enkomi from the end of the 14th c. and during the 13th c., was dispossessed by a chief, probably of the same origin. Moreover, the pottery and the jewellery, as well as the [handwritten: 63] traditions funerary, clearly indicate their Achaean descent.
The Mycenaean or Achaean peninsula of Cyprus, (we now maintain that these two [handwritten: illegible] are interdependent in Cyprus) has therefore passed through three phases.
The first, essentially commercial, judging from the vessel of imported pottery at Enkomi, began as early as the second half of the 14th c., and occupied most of the 14th c.
During the second phase, which begins as early as the end of the 14th c. and occupies almost all of the 13th c., and which is characterised from the ceramic point of view by the familiar local Mycenaean pottery, Achaean chiefs took power on the east coast of Cyprus and in its capital: Enkomi, where they had built the palace found during our recent excavations.
We thus confirm the great antiquity of the Achaean settlement on the island, which we had until now doubted, and which is still disputed by certain authors.
It helps to understand the importance that the Hittite kings, from the end of the 14th c., then previously from Mursil II, attached to an alliance with this maritime power which was then beginning to settle in the islands, and perhaps even on the coasts forming part of the Achaean sphere of influence.
It is perhaps permissible to suppose, in passing, that the war of Troy, an Achaean undertaking as tradition has it, may have constituted the first consequence of this Mycenaean expansion at the end of the 14th c.
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