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and in the 13th century, during which Achaean chiefs seized power at Enkomi in Cyprus.
It would then be necessary to abandon the date of Eratosthenes, as Mr Dean Gerard has already proposed in a paper presented to this Academy.
Towards the end of the 13th century, in concert with the Lukki, another tribe of these Sea Peoples, settled in Cyprus since the 14th century, according to the Tell Amarna letters, Achaeans called Akaiwasha by the Egyptians, had allied themselves with the Lycians in an attempted invasion of the Nile valley.
It is probable that the Akaiwasha came from a country to the south of the sea, a designation which could strictly apply to the Peloponnese, but which takes on its true meaning only if we admit that it referred to Cyprus.
Moreover, it would have been and would still be difficult today, for a flotilla coming from Crete, to operate in the Nile delta, without being first assured of the base in Cyprus..
Handwritten: blue annotation over "Nil" and "assuré"
On the other hand, all attempts to locate, on the south coast of Asia Minor, the land of the Akaiwa spoken of by the Hittites, do violence to the texts.
The difficulties are resolved if we place the eastern foothold of the Achaeans in Cyprus.
In the Iliad of Mycenae's victory, it is specified that a large number of its Achaeans set out from its hand in the battle [illegible] which
Handwritten: blue strikethrough and bracket over "bataille" to "qui"
The phenomenon had taken place around 1219, according to the chronology of Recton, slightly moved back compared with the dates proposed by MM. Drioton and Vandier, according to whom the event fell [handwritten: blue strikethrough] in 1227.
Handwritten: marginal scribble top right
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain