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… hiding-places have been found immediately under the uppermost level floor I, of the XIth c. town.
The fact that these treasures have not been recovered by their proprietors, indicate the reality of the menace. In the middle or second half of the XIth c., the town had been overrun by another invasion and razed to the ground. No later remains have so far been observed by us on the site ( 135, 136).
Paragraphes 137 to 143 is examined the topographical and chronological relationship of tombs 18 and 22 of the swelled excavations with the building 18 which overlays these tombs. The bronze armament of the warriors buried in the exceptional tomb 18 is here examined a new and a long slashing bronze sword of the typical Late Mycenaean type published for the first time ( 144). It is evident that the tomb represent the family vault of XIII the Enkomi Ahhottenta which had lived in the large building 18. The funeral gifts point to their Achaean origin, as does the architecture of the building ( 145). Tomb and building are thus recognized as belonging to a family of chieftains of Mycenaean or Achaean origin, which had ruled the town during the XIIIth c. B.C. and which seem to have conquered the capital city of Cyprus as early as the second half of the XIVth c.
Towards the end of the XIIIth c., they were deprived of their fief and residence by other conquerors from Knossos. They also seem to have been of Mycenaean and possibly Rhodienne origin, judging from the fine oligae style pottery very similar to that of Italiase which they used and from the fact that they retreated from violating the rich family tomb laying under the floor of the reesdem- … continues
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