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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Some of the types recall "Granary" vases found at Mycenae (1). Other types recall sub-Mycenean pottery from the Kernemiko (2). The evidence of the earth-quake which overlies this floor of room XII has already been mentioned. The pottery just described which was sealed by the destruction layer gives clear evidence of the date of the earthquake, i.e. about the end of the twelfth or beginning of the eleventh century B.C. [handwritten: (3)] a similar catastrophe is observed at Sinda [handwritten: (3)]

It is noteworthy that a similar catastrophe is observed at Sinda (3) at approximately the same date (before the end of LCIII A, i.e. sometime before 1125 B.C.).

In the course of the description of the ceramic evidence in those six rooms, the pottery of which has been studied in detail, I have distinguished three ceramic stages, corresponding to stages in the architectural history of the compound. Would this justify subdivision of the LCIII into three sub-periods? Some authors (Furtwängler, Stoy-Vlat, Schaeffer, Furumark) favour the division into