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It concerns an earthquake which destroyed the houses of floor II, and whose effects were also observed by Mr Daniel at Curium, and more recently by Mr Furumark at Sinda.
The collapsed or damaged houses of Enkomi were moreover promptly repaired or rebuilt.
In one of the houses of the time of floor II, a group of bronzes including a seated deity on a throne in the form of egg armchair was buried during the earthquake.
During the searches made in the rubble after the catastrophe, only the throne could be recovered by its owners.
The statuette, on the other hand, remained buried under the rubble where we found it again.
The throne was then fitted with a new statuette whose dimensions however fit the seat only imperfectly.
Thus completed, the bronze resumed its place in the new house built over the levelled ruins of the one that had collapsed.
Finally the statuette and its throne were entrusted to a hiding place arranged in floor I, when the population of Enkomi began to put [handwritten: effectively] its valuables in safety as the danger approached which was to finally bring about the final destruction of the city, and the loss of a whole series of similar hiding places, found in level I, at Enkomi.
Characterised from the ceramic point of view by the Granary style pottery style, now dominant and mixed with technically degenerated examples of the Sub-Mycenaean style, the last level of Enkomi corresponding to floor I, of the houses is astonishingly rich in bronze and ivory objects.
Indisputably, in the second half of the 12th century and at the beginning
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