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… other cypriotes adventurers. His own position seems to have been fragile. It may these be he, or his successor, who was deposited by the achaian chieftains, when they took over the island's capital, Enkomi-Alasia, during the XIVth c. and have had built themselves a small palace, the building 18, we have found there in 1949. Thase achaian conquest of Cyprus may be connected with a general mycenaean expansion during the XIVth c. B.C., the most famous episode of which, as some scholars new believe, may have been the Trajan War. Its date (beginning of XIIth c.) would, in this case, need correction.
The localisation in Cyprus of the most eastern foothold of the Achaians would explain the reaction of the Hittites and their efforts to neutralize this menace on their south-eastern flanc. It is probably from Cyprus came those Achaians mentioned among the sea-raiders, who Mineptah (Marenptah) defeated at Perire (ca. 1220 B.C.). And it may have been this unsuccessful attempt to invade Egypte, which caused the weakening of the Achaian position in Cyprus. In any case, it was at thus moment, towards the end of the XIIIth c. that the Achaian regime in Enkomi underwent a profond change. The inhabitants of the residence in Enkomi (building 18)lost their power and possessions and were replaced by another achaian (?) chieftain contempory with the close style pottery and who may have possibly been Attarsijaʼ or the man of Pggaja. According to the Madduwatta text, they had taken over the island when Arnuvanda II (ca. 1220-1205) was king of the Hittites.
This was but the last flicker of the achaian position in the
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