Document 34 CDF art. 168-1, 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 Schaeffer, scan 369 (1949)

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The ceramic evidence of the second stage, which followed the burning and reconstruction of the building with certain changes in its use, shows the appearance and development of the decorated LCIII ware. This ware shows strong Syro-Palestinian elements and weak Helladic ties (v. Supra p. ...) and its presence may therefore imply the appearance and temporary preeminance of people who arrived from Syro-Palestinian coast. This would be in perfect agreement with Dr. Schaeffer's previous conclusions (1). The third and last stage is characterised by a great influx of Mycenean IIIC: 1 c or IIIC: 2 pottery which may be explained by the mass arrival of newcomers, who cannot be others than Achaeans pressed out of Mycenean territory by the arrival of the Dorians (2). It is mainly this pottery, supplemented by elements from the earlier Mycenean IIIC: 1 style and from the decorated LCIII ware, that was the immediate antecedent of the proto-white painted and geometric styles in Cyprus. The establishment of these Acheans,

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(1) Stratigraphie Comparée, 588.

(2) The traditional date of the Dorian invasion is 1104; cf. Heurtley in QDAP V, 110.

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