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this establishment, the town (or at least that part of it excavated by us) was destroyed by fire and reconstructed. In this reconst ruction modifications were made in our building, including the conversion to ritual use of an area previously domestic (v. Infra .....). It was during the period which followed the reconstruction that the decorated LCIII ware flourished, which suggests that the destruction was due to some raid by people who came from the Syro-Palestinian coast and possibly settled temporarily in the Island.(1) Later however at the end of the twelfth or beginning of the eleventh century B.C. further Achaeans, pressed by the Dorians, arrived in force and, changing one more the course of events, established that ascendancy of the which/earliest Iron Age pottery (proto-white painted) is so eloquent.
/Gjerstad
(1) About the association of the Syro-Palestinian elements in the decorated LCIII ware with Vergil's (Arnais I 619 ff) passage recording that Teucer landed in Sidon and that with the help of its King . . . he was able to settle in Salamis - see Gjerstad,OA III,=449=ff The Colonization of Cyprus in Greek legend OA III, 119 ff.
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain