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floor and at the foot of the palace walls still blackened by smoke.
Our finds make it possible to identify the attackers, as a [handwritten: mita] branch of the Sea Peoples of which the Philistines formed part, recognisable by their characteristic armament: the thrusting sword, the large shield, the helmet with feathers arranged in a fan, and by the type of their boats with flat hulls [handwritten: =] with large sails, without oars.
According to our stratigraphic observations, these serious events at Enkomi fall within the period of 1200 to 1150 before our era.
They are therefore contemporary with the second great invasion of the Sea Peoples, halted by Ramesses III, thanks to his naval and land victory in year 8, i.e. 1190 according to the Drioton-Vandier Chronology, and 1163 according to Rowton.
At Enkomi, once calm had returned, craftsmen set up their workshops among the walls still standing of the burnt palace, and fitted out their modest dwellings there.
The rubble was thrown into the neighbouring streets, whose level was thus [handwritten: re]raised at a single stroke by nearly 50cm.
The large carriage gateways were narrowed by rubble low walls and turned into mean passages.
The interior of the vast building in turn was divided into small rooms or fitted out as foundry workshops, where we found the crucibles in situ, with beside them heaps of slag and ash from the furnaces.
A new floor, floor IV, simply of beaten earth, was laid over the levelled rubble.
The archaeological material of the new occupants who divided up the ruins of the palace is characterised by the appearance of the first everyday iron objects and of an original [handwritten: glyptic] hitherto unknown on the island.
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