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

this establishment, the town (or at least that part

of it excavated by us) was destroyed by fire and

reconstructed. In this reconstruction 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 were with Vergil's

(Aeneid I 619 ff) passage recording that Teucer landed

in Bidon and that with the help of its King . . .

he was able to settle in Salamis - see Gjerstad, HE-+HE-+ The colonization of Cyprus in Greek legend

OA III, 449 ff.