Page - 4 -Scan 7 of 8
Continued from p. - 3 -
… as in the islands of the eastern Mediterranean. It is here indisputably a matter of weapons originating in northern and central Europe, which reached the countries and islands of the Aegean Sea, by warlike invasions and trade in arms, by way of Italy and the Balkans. The finds of Enkomi-Alasia now prove that weapons of this type were manufactured on the island; the copies are so well made that they cannot be distinguished from their European prototypes of the Bronze Age. It is therefore permissible to conclude that the armourers of Cyprus who forged them were elements of those same Peoples of the Sea who invaded [handwritten: ʃ]the island at that time.
The knives and swords of European type removed from the occupation levels of Enkomi-Alasia by the Peoples of the Sea could be dated precisely, thanks to their archaeological context and to Egyptian and Ugaritic epigraphy, to the reign of Ramesses III and of his contemporary, the king of Ugarit Hammourapi. These datings make it possible to specify the absolute chronology, still being worked out, of similar finds from northern, central and southern Europe.
Cypriot archaeology makes here a new and important contribution to research in the field of European Prehistory.
Figure: horizontal rule separator centred on page
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain