Enkomi 1966 notebook of Jacques-Claude Courtois and Aegean Islands 1966 notebook of Jacques-Claude CourtoisJacques-Claude Courtois

not indicated. In the storerooms in the basement I was lucky enough to take a look at all the pottery and fragments = nothing, absolument rien qui correspondit aux XIV-XIII or 12^th c. = all the material is of the Melian type from PHYLAKOPI, dating to Middle Minoan III and above all Late Minoan I A. This very important finding surprises me, but it appears crucial for the date of the eruption which ruined the island, and for several centuries. Santorini seems to have been as prosperous au XV^e s, puis à l'époque géométrique au VIII^e siècle (vastes fouilles de H von Gärtringen), whose rich material fills the Museum of Thera so much so that the eruption and collapse of the island brought about total desertion, an abandonment following the burial of the "Pompeii prehistoric" (in the words of F. FOUQUÉ) around 1400 BC.