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In Cyprus and particularly at Enkomi, they settled en masse, and completely transformed the environment, which first suffered a considerable decline in civilisation, before regaining prosperity and balance at the end of a generation or two.
From the period corresponding to floor III, first half of the 13th c., begin to mingle with the remains of Cypriot Iron I, the evidence of the arrival of a new foreign element, in the form of types of industrial product hitherto unknown at Enkomi, in particular a number of progressively increasing vessels of the so-called granary style, or granary style.
Never previously observed in Cyprus before our excavations at Enkomi, this pottery, as is known, thanks to Mr Wace's excavations at the Lion Gate, is contemporary with the fall of Mycenae, and had its centre of distribution in Argolid.
This time the comparisons do not lead us, as for the close style pottery, to Rhodes, but aim beyond the Dodecanese, as far as the centre of Mycenaean power.
If the comparison is valid, and the fidelity of the granary style pottery of floors III to I seems to support it at Enkomi, in relation [handwritten: to] that of Mycenae, seems to support it, we shall have there a means of coming to the aid of the early chronology of Greece.
The fall of Mycenae was thus to be placed, in fact, between 1200 and 1150 before our era, a date which would obviously exclude linking [handwritten: of] the event to the Dorian invasion of the 11th c.
I come to the last level at Enkomi, to which floor I corresponds, whose end coincides with the final abandonment of the town.
But before that, I must briefly mention an event which also affected other urban centres contemporary with Enkomi in the eastern region of the island.
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain