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metal industries in that town where during the XIIth and XIth centuries B.C., the new metal was still sparingly used. The "People of the Sea" which then had occupied Enkomi and probably the island or a part whole, may have contributed to the diffusion of the Cyprus copper ingots.
Chapter II.- In this chapter, several finds belonging to the XIIth and XIth c. levels of Enkomi, or levels of the Sea People occupation are published. In a building of the north quarter of the town a hoard of 27 bronze implements and other objects hidden under the last floor level have escaped the pillage of the town during the XIth c. B.C.
The hoards contains one of those axe-adzes which in prehistoric Europe have been found numerous in metalliferous regions and henceforth been considered as mines or prospectors' plates. The question is here examined a fresh and the chronology of this and other bronze types established ( 9 à 14).
In tombs and dwellings of the Sea People levels of Enkomi a special type of engraved stone seal and eyelinder has been identified. Ten of these damaged seals, mostly of steatite, found in stratified layers or intacts tombs are described and compared with similar seals from earlier finds made in Cyprus, Syria and Palestine. A Far Eastern origine for this peculiar type of seal is probable, but it cannot yet be definitely established Egypte. Crête and Grèce are certainly excluded. Some of these seals have been used by Philistines of the type described on the Medinet Habou reliefs among the warriors of the Sea Peoples defeated by Ramses II about 1188 B.C. ( 16 à 19).
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain