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founders establishing their Achaean descent.
The Mycenaean penetration or system of Cyprus (the two terms are interchangeable in Cyprus) thus passed through three phases. The first essentially commercial, judging from the volume of the imports, began as early as the middle of the XIV s.–During the second phase characterised by locally made Mycenaean pottery, Achaean chiefs took power on the east coast of Cyprus and at Enkomi, the capital where the fleet built the platform allows our excavations of 1949 and 1950. We thus confirm the great antiquity of the settlement Achaean in the island, of which we thought, [illegible], that we already set out in our 1950 report. It helps to understand the importance attached by the Mycenaean kings from Mycenae and to the understanding with this phase of our recent analyses for the first time by Swiss Assyriology of Ugarit, since it is with its settlement in Cyprus began to scrutinise even before the sphere of Ugarit, thus Ras Shamra of the Anatolians.
Towards the end of the 13th c. Achaeans were Anatolians by the Egyptians executing, allied with the Hittites in an attempted invasion of the valley of the Nile received by Ramesses around 1220. It is specified that the Anatolians came from a country of the sea, a designation which could strictly apply to the Ionians, but which does not take without value... that it were not a (...) that it refers to Cyprus. We will now place the eastern support point of the Achaeans. It is probable that it was their defeat in Syria which brought about the collapse of the Achaean position at Ugarit. They are then, it is at this moment, towards the end of the 13th c. that the transformation begins and marks the Mycenaean phase of Cyprus where these, like the occupants of the palace of Enkomi were replaced by chiefs of Aegean origin Mycenaean, perhaps coming from Rhodes, and who do not resemble the fine pottery of final style found among the layers of the fire. It may be that this reconquest of the palace of Enkomi which has been linked with the invasion which the Hittite king Arnuwanda II ... about the capture of Cyprus by two Achaean chiefs, one of whom bears the name Attarsiyas. It was in any case of short duration, and ended with a new invasion this time general of the city and extremely destructive. The palace reached the craft quarter of which they formed part. Natural of the quarter by expressions made to parts of the temples of the sea point I go to identify frontiers. According to our stratigraphic observations, these grave events. At Enkomi they fall in the period 1200 to 1190. They are therefore contemporary with the second great invasion of the Sea Peoples which- … continues
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