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Handwritten: Enkomi (upside down heading)
the installations of the Peoples of the Sea and the North show a degree of culture much less advanced, compared with those of the urban centres Mycenaean of Cyprus, enriched by their flourishing trade with the Near- East, and in particular Enkomi-Alasia, the largest, with its stereotyped geometric town plan, the noble architecture of its houses
It would however be wrong to consider these latter as the most ancient, and the first Achaean colonisations of the island of Cyprus, as some archaeologists have recently done. It has already been demonstrated and the new finds at Enkomi-Alasia confirm – that the occupation Achaean of Cyprus is two centuries earlier, and dates from the arrival of Mycenaean immigrants, coming from the Peloponnese. Thanks to them, the island knew, in the 14th and 13th c. B.C.E., an era of prosperity and a remarkable cultural upsurge.
the disappearance of Mycenaean civilisation in Cyprus and in the Peloponnese therefore occurred at the same moment, towards the end of the 13th or at the beginning of the 12th c. B.C.E. There followed on the island, as in southern Greece, the settlement of populations doubtless related to one another, that of Cyprus having been designated by the Egyptian historiographers of the court of Ramesses III under the name of Peoples of the North and the Sea.
The excavations in autumn 1970 at Enkomi-Alasia show again that during the period of occupation of Cyprus by the Peoples of the North and of the Sea, a pottery was made and used on the island, which is clearly distinguished from Cypriot pottery and from the two painted mycenaean vessels in use in the 14th and 13th c. This new pottery of the 13th c. is foreign to the traditions of the Cypriot potters of the preceding periods, in its shapes and painted decoration, to that which has been uncovered in southern Greece and in the Aegean islands, in archaeological layers which cover destroyed and abandoned houses of the end of the Mycenaean period, as at Enkomi-Alasia.
12th c., as attested by the inscriptions of Medinet Habu and the texts recently discovered at Ras Shamra-Ugarit. At the beginning of the 12th c., the inhabitants of the town emigrated to the coastal site near Salamis, which became the capital of the island during the Greek and Roman period.
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain