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This happened at the time when Mycenae in Argos was finally destroyed.
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In the following paragraphe ( 147), we analyse the different kinds of ceramic styles which succeeded each other in the island from the middle of the XIVth c. to the XIth. The penetration of the mycenaean ware was accomplished in three phases: 1. commercial import XV-XIVth c.; 2. local production during the aegean regime in the island (XIVth-XIIIth c.); 3. short lived final period with import of the closed style at the end of the XIIIth c., no sign of local production of this ware, so far. [handwritten: 4] Than followed, at the beginning of Chypriote Fer I or Late Cypriote III, a period of general and probably exclusive use of the sub mycenaean pottery (debased levanto-helladic, or decorated L C III ware) which coincides with the Sea People and Philistine invasion of the island during the XIIth c. This was soon followed by the importation of the granary style in the middle of the XIIth c., pottery which finally became predominant during the last period of existence of the town, XIth c.
An attemps to reconstruct the general history of Cyprus with the aid of the new information gained during our 1946-1950 excavations at Enkomi is made in 148.
During the first half of the XIVth c., the king of Alasia (Kinyras ?) in his message to Amenophis IV ( Amenhetep-Akhenaten: Tell el Amarna letter 38) admits that the Lukki (Lycians) had taken over part of the island, probably the north coast, from where they raided the Egyptian sea frontier, possibly with the help of
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain