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On the other hand, one notes there the total absence of the pottery apcalled until then of frequent use at Enkomi.
It was replaced by simpler pottery, of the type special type to which the name (the so-called Levanto-Philistine ware of the category I, Tarsus ware).
It is characteristic of the period from 1200 to 1100 in figures round, during which it was propped up and used to the exclusion of allother pottery, as the péristéllères tombs prove.
On the other hand, our work allows us to note that the occupation of Enkomi by the Teucins ce la ker has not ceased to affect the industrial activity of the city.
This palace with its dependencies was burned, and its upper storey furnished, exploded or put out of use, but the activity of the bronzefounders has not ceased; they fairly quickly.
It seems, on the contrary, during this period, that is to say at the beginning of Cypriot Iron I, in the XIIº century, a remarkable activity.
Indeed we were able to establish in the course of our excavations that all the ingots of copper from this site, kept in the Museum of Stockholm, at the Brooklyn Museum, at the Metropolitan Museum of New York and at Los Angeles, date from this immediately subsequent period and not of the end of the less, of the XIVº-XIIIº century as described so far.
Long elongated body, characterised by stretched corners floating the number of its long bars weighing up to 50 Kgrs, is distinguished moreover notably from the austeroid ingots made in the Island of earlier type, and of which the Egyptian bas-reliefs of the time of Thutmose III and of which fixe-haut examples found come from a store of the palace of Ugarit burnt in 1250, from the end of the middle century.
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