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granary style which, in the stratified layers and floors of the dwellings introduced in the former mycenaean residence of Enkomi (building 18, see below) makes its appearance during the second and third phases of the early Iron Age to become predominant in the very latest niveau of the town during the first half of the XIth c. B.C.
The numerous vases used for funeral offerings in tomb 5 at the beginning of the early Iron Age, belong exclusively to the submycenaean pottery, called debased levanto-helladic pottery by M. Gjerstad and decorated L C III ware by M. Furumark. The same pottery mixed with no other, was found in tombs contemporary with tomb 5 discovered during our 1934 and 1947 seasons of excavations (see Missions en Chypre, tombs 6, 13, 16, p. 80 ss and below). We are therefore bound to admit that the submycenaean pottery [handwritten: ß ✓] was in exclusive use among the population of Enkomi at the very beginning of the early Iron Age or Late Cypriote III (Chypriote Fer I), after the disappearance of the latest specimens of the Mycenaean pottery or close style and before the first vases of the granary style were imported there.
In several of the intact tombs of Enkomi, this submycenaean pottery is associated with seals, cylinders and other finds which we have since recognised as beeing typical of the Sea Pepple and Philistine occupation levels of Enkomi dating to the beginning of the XIIth c. (see above). It is therefore probable that we have to consider it as the pottery used by these invadors after their settlement in the island and before their illfated attempt to invade Egypte, where Ramsès III defeated them by sea and land during the
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