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strong wave of Achaean colonists, who introduced the pottery which was to become the prototype of the protowhite painted and Cypro-geometric pottery. This "wavy line" style, together with the "close" style [handwritten: important but not exploited enough] which persists even in the topmost layers, are the immediate predecessors of the Iron Age styles. During the same final stage we also observe large quantities of Syro-Palestinian amphorae, which testify to continued intercourse with that area into the eleventh century.
Floor I of room XII, which actually corresponds with floor II in the general stratification, ie. the floor in use at the time of the earthquake was one of the most productive, and the pottery found on it is instructive regarding the wares current at the stage before the earthquake. This room (Pl.X, 2), which [handwritten: ? ... also this ... hearth] had a central hearth suggestive of Megaron arrangements, yielded a score of small deep bowls, as well as ampho- [handwritten: see upper levels ... Enk] rae or jugs (cf. Pl. LXV-LXVII) which are reminiscent of types found in House G at Asine and which belong to the Mycenean IIIC: 1 b-c ie. 1125-1075 B.C. (1). [handwritten: according to ?]
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(1) OA III, 209.
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain