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ce they had taken over ( 1450). MEGA/ENKA/64
With the conquest of Enkomi by the naval branch of the Sea People among which we noticed the presence of Philistines, at the beginning of the XIIth c., the mycenaean regime in the island or a whole came to a sudden end ( 146). Enkomi, at first suffered a cultural set back but the industrial activity in the town, especially its metal industrie does not seem to have been interrupted.
The many finds made in the Sea People levels of Enkomi (pottery, bronze statuettes, seals, graffitos) reveal some vague connections with southern Anatolia and more pronounced relations with Syria and the Mitannian region. The new settlers had also come into contact with egyptian art and customs and after their arrival in the island, they absorbed some of the mycenaean traditions which had survived there. These diverse influences explain the mixed character of the culture of the Sea People as reflected by the discoveries made among the ruins of their settlements at Enkomi.
These enable us to control and also to correct the opinion of the contemporary egyptian historians, whose account of the Sea People cannot, of course, be taken, as being impartial.
Soon after their settlements in the island, the Sea People and Philistines were confronted there with the arrival of a fresh current of aegean influence marked by the appearance of gradually increasing quantity of specimens of the granary ware, certainly imported first, then probably initiated by local potters.
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