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This interpretation and the chronology on which it is based seem to me to need revising.
We come here to support new proposals already presented to this Academy by the Hellenists.
If one wishes to reconcile the traditional colonisation of Cyprus by the Achaeans with the data now revealed by my stratigraphic excavations at Enkomi, the event would have to be moved back to the end of the XIVth century, or at the latest, to the XIIIth.
In that case, the foundation of the new Salamis by Te[handwritten: uc]ros, cannot refer to the site now buried in the coastal forests near Enkomi.
It would correspond to an Achaean settlement on the site that we are currently excavating, whose palace[handwritten: ,] found in the western part of Enkomi where space was available, constitutes the most significant building.
This Achaean settlement at Enkomi, amplified in tradition into the foundation of a new city, may have brought about a change of the ancient name: Alasia may have become Salamin[handwritten: a], a name which preserves the radical of the ancient toponym.
The destruction of the tow[handwritten: n] found at Enkomi, destruction dated by our finds to the XIth century, would then have to be linked to a quite different event in Greece and the Aegean much later.
According to the archaeological indications gathered so far, we foresee an invasion in connection with the events in Greece and in the Aegean, on the occasion of the appearance of [handwritten: s] Dorians Dorians.
The repercussion of this event may have been felt in Cyprus, obviously with some delay compared with Greece[handwritten: ,] where the apparition of the Dorians according to l[handwritten: a] calculations based on the information of the
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