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

years later, those who introduced the "wavy line" style. It was not until the eleventh century that Enkomi was abandoned, its inhabitants probably moving to Salamis. Unless and until twelfth century remains are found on the latter site may we not suppose that Teucer established himself not there but at Enkomi? In that case if Alasia is finally proved to be the name of LCII Enkomi, we should have to suppose that Teucer re-named it Salamis. HILL (1) suggested that Teucer and the Achaeans who came with him possibly found a native name which sounded to them somewhat similar to Salamis, which name they gave to their new foundation. Schaeffer (2) draws also attention to the fact that the word Salamis retains the main elements "a-la" of Alasia. If all these suggestions prove to be correct then we would be justified in supposing that the town at Enkomi on its re-establishment by the Teucrians simply changed its name from Alasia to Salamis and that the latter name was later transferred to the site