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Late Mycenaean wares shows that Cyprus maintained relations with the Mycenaean 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 IIIC. In the second stage we observe the development and increase of the decorated IIIC ware which is called by some sub- Mycenean and by others debased Levanto-Helladic. Furumark who proposed the term decorated IIIC 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.III, 5; IX, 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) Op. cit. p. [illegible]
Handwritten: already ... Haartm?
(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 Egyptianstome, people who may have come from the Syro-Palestinian sphere. Cf.
Printed: vertical marginal text in right margin, partly illegible
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain