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in Cyprus and particularly at Enkomi, they settled en masse, and completely transformed the milieu, which had first undergone a considerable decline of civilisation, in order to recover prosperity and balance within a generation or two.
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From the period corresponding to floor III, first half of the 12th century, 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 types hitherto unknown at Enkomi, in particular a number gradually fairly numerous of vessels in the so-called granary style, or Granary style, Never observed in Cyprus before our excavations at Enkomi, this pottery, as is known, thanks to the excavations of K. Kene at the Gate of the Lions, is contemporary with the fall of Ugarit, and had its centre of distribution in Argolid.
This time these comparisons do not lead us, as for globe style pottery, to Rhodes, but go beyond the Dodecanese, to the centre of Mycenaean power.
If the comparison is valid, and the reliability of the pottery of the Granary style from floors III to I at Enkomi, compared with that of Ugarit, brings us there to the means of helping the chronology somewhat of Greece.
The fall of Ugarit was indeed to be placed between 1200 and 1190 before our era, a date which would obviously exclude linking the event to the Dorian invasion of the 12th century.
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It arrives at the last level at Enkomi, to which floor I corresponds, whose end coincides with the final event of the city.
What remains, however, is the date assigned to the event which actually has other [illegible] synchronous with Enkomi in the region eastern part of the island.
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain