Contribution to Enkomi I, Text, Preliminary Report on the Cyprus Department of Antiquities excavations at Enkomi, The Bronze Statue of a Horned God, annotated and commented by SchaefferPorphyrios Dikaios and Claude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer

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late Mycenean wares shows that Cyprus maintained relations with the Mycenean world all through the twelfth century and even in the early eleventh.

Together with the wares which reflect Mycenean IIIC: 1 styles we find, in the first of the three stages of our compound Cypriot wares most of which are represented at the end of the LCII. In the second stage we observe the development and increase of the decorated LCIII ware which is called by some sub- Mycenean and by others debased Levanto-Helladic. Furumark who proposed the term decorated LCIII ware has shown (1) that this pottery, apart from weak Helladic features contains strong Syro-Palestinian elements (2). Our excavations have now brought to light a few new shapes of the same ware and especially the small amphora (Pl.LII, 5, LX, 2) which is evidently a Mycenean inheritance. Fragments of amphorae of this type but larger and of plain ware have also been found on

(1) OA III, 232 ff.

(2) Here we should mention that Schaeffer speaks of the establishment at Enkomi at the end of the thirteenth and the beginning of the twelfth century B.C. of people who were in contact with Egyptiancustoms, people who may have come from the Syro-Palestinian sphere. Cf.

Printed: /Stratigraphie, 393 ff.

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