Summary of research at Enkomi-Alasia and the discovery of the townH. de Contenson

of the main gate a corridor and staircase led to the upper storey. The foundations of the building go back to the middle of the 14^th century B.C. and its fine ashlar construction shows strong Mycenaean influence. In the 12^th century, the period of the invasion in Cyprus of "the Peoples of the Sea", the building was destroyed by fire. Its ruins, repaired and strengthened, were subdivided by the new inhabitants of the town (Philistines mixed with older Mycenaeans in Dr. Schaeffer's opinion) into small rooms and workshops by rubble walls. The doors and windows of the original structure were blocked later on owing to floods in the mid-twelfth century. The building was finally abandoned in the 11^th century, after its destruction by earthquake. Two bronze statuettes of seated gods were found in the earthquake layers representing together with the fine bronze statue of the horned god (see "Area E") the deities worshipped at Engomi during the 12^th and 11^th centuries. AREA E. Is the Area excavated by the Department of Antiquities in the winter 1948-51. It contains an important building in which a fine bronze statue of a horned god was discovered. The statue (now in the Cyprus Museum) measures 2 feet in height and is a remarquable example of early sculpture (12^th century) B.C.