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So it was a change of regime, during which the dynasty that had reigned at Enkomi since the end of the XIVè century and during the XIIIè, was dispossessed by a chief, probably of the same origin.
The armament, the pottery and the jewellery, as well as [handwritten: the] the traditions funerary, clearly indicate their Achaean descent.
The Mycenaean or Achaean penetration of Cyprus, (we now know that these two [handwritten: terms] are interchangeable in Cyprus) has therefore passed through three phases.
The first, essentially commercial, judging from the volume of imported pottery at Enkomi, began[handwritten: /] as early as the second halfof the XVè century, and occupied most of the XIVè.
During the second phase, which begins as early as the end of the XIVè and occupies almost all of the XIIIè, and which is characterised from the point of view of ceramicslogy by locally made Mycenaean pottery, Achaean chiefs took power on the eastern coast of Cyprus and in its capital: Enkomi, where they built the palace found during our recent excavations.
We thus confirm the great antiquity of the Achaean settlement on the island, which we had until now doubted, and which is still disputed by certain authors.
It helps to understand the importance that the Hittite kings, from the end of the XIVè, more precisely from Mursil II, attached to an alliance with this maritime power which was then beginning to settle in the islands, and perhaps even on the coasts forming part of the Anatolian sphere of influence.
It may perhaps be permitted to suggest, in passing, that the war of Troy, an Achaean undertaking as tradition has it, may have constituted the first consequence[handwritten: /] of this Mycenaean expansion at the end of the XIVè
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