Document·34 CDF art. 168-1·1964

Summary in English, Combined Expedition EnkomiClaude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer

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… in the naval and land engagement of ca 1163 B.C.

The burnt ruins of the buiding 18 after having been strengthened were partitioned into small dwellings and workshops for bronze costing by the new inhabitants of Enkomi mixed with remnents of the former population (floor IV). Caractérised by complete absence of th[handwritten: the] mycenaean ware including its final phase, [handwritten: the] close style, the pottery than in use at Enkomi of much poorer aspect than in the preceding period, has been termed by me submycenaean ware (Gjerstad, debased levanto helladic ware, Furumark decorated L C III ware). Another significant change to be observed at this juncture is the first appearanee in the island of iron weapons and tools, even in the dwellings or tombs of ordinary people.

At the beginning of this new period (Chypriote Fer I :1200-1050 or Late Cypriote III), the submycenaean ware was used exclusively as it is seen from the intact tombs of that period some of which are described in chapter III ( 131, 132).

But soon after the time of floor levea IV, specimens of the so[handwritten: identical] called granary ware, [handwritten: identifiable] with or very similar to the potter, found among the ruins of Mycenae after its fall, make their first appearance mixed with the still predominating submycenaean ware, in the Sea People or Early Iron Age levels overlaying building 18.

During this phase corresponding to floors III and II (ca. 1150- 1100) extensive structural changes have taken place at the dwellings among the ruins of former building 18. Doors and windows have been walled and the floors levels raised twice, in connec[handwritten: ct]ion with floors which in the course at least 6 years of exceptional heavy rainfall,

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