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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to which the introduction of this pottery bears witness, marks the final and definite phase of the Greek colonization of the island.

These conclusions throw light on a rather obscure but crucial period of Cypriot history and seem to settle a problem discussed by Gjerstad (1) and Furumark (2). Gjerstad considered the decorated LCIII ware to constitute evidence of the presence of Achaean elements newly arrived in the early twelfth century. Furumark, though accepting the theory of the arrival of Achaeans at this time does not agree that the decorated LCIII is evidence of it, since this pottery contains predominant Syro-Palestinian elements. We have now tangible evidence at Enkomi of the establishment of new arrivals (? Achaeans) early in the twelfth century, possibly at the end of the Trojan war when Agepenor, Agamemnon and Teucer came to Cyprus, the latter founding Salamis. It would appear that the Achaean founders of Salamis may have settled first at Enkomi or simultaneously at both places. Following this

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