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of the general plan, as well as the square-plan windows that pierce the south façade of the palace.
By contrast, neighbouring Syria and more especially Ugarit, whose relations with Enkomi are otherwise so frequent, as well as Egypt and Anatolia, provide us with no element of comparison.
The archaeological materials recovered from the concrete floor, thick of 15 to 30cm, remarkably solid of the original construction: [handwritten: vitre] [handwritten: ceramique?] [handwritten: sol V] floor V counted from the present surface, allow the date of construction of the palace, between 1350 and 1250 before our era.
It remained in use until about 1225, as attested by the pottery Mycenaean and Cypriot, the bronzes and the small objects.
It was then that its occupants, surprised by an attack, were expelled or exterminated.
The fine residence was reoccupied and reused without change by people who used the fine Mycenaean pottery of the final style or close style, identical, down to the detail, to that of Jalissos.
It was therefore from Rhodes, or more generally from the region of the Dodecanese, that the new masters of Enkomi must have come.
These events, which took place between 1225 and 1200, concern only the ruling class of Enkomi.
The tombs of private individuals, and we have found several of them in intact condition, show no trace of this corresponding penetration to the final Mycenaean phase of the close style.
It is important to point out that the new chiefs of the town, installed in our palace at Enkomi, respected the great family burial chamber fitted out in its basement, and the numerous gold objects which had been accumulated there.
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