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explained by mass arrival of newcomers, "who cannot be others than Achaeans pressed out of Mycenean territory by the arrival of Dorians". The establishment of these Achaeans to which the introduction of this pottery bears witness (!) marks the final and definite phase of the Greek colonization of the island.»» This theory may flatter philhellenic feelings, but the present state of our archaeological information at Enkomi and in Cyprus as a whole does not warrant it. We have certainly to wait here what the future finds tell us.
Achaeans pressed out of Greece by the Dorians (Dikaios refers to the traditional date of 1104) could emigrate to many nearer islands or the western Asia Minor before having to go as far as Cyprus. Look on a map. Besides 1104 or later is in any case, and I think even for Dikaios, too late for a date for their arrival in the island and the building by them (as Dikaios admits) of the fine earlier compound excavated by Dikaios [handwritten: scribble]
P.164, he refers to the discussions of these delicate problems of Gjerstad and Furumark who profess different views and he leaves out here what the late Daniel after his experience at Curium had to say to others. And he continues his Achaean crusade without proper regard to historical information and dates, and at the end brings Aegeamen and Teucer to Enkomi (p.164) from where they then settled over to Salamine and so on. All this after a campaign at Enkomi, after having made a stratigraphical visitationpretation followed by an obstinate struggle against contrary evidence and after having reversed without a word of explanation his former opinion.
Consequence of all these terribly adventurous conclusions: "If Alasia finally is proved to be the name of LC II Enkomi, we should have to suppose that Teucer re-named it Salamis" (p.167).
Some lines further Enkomi became according to Dikaios a reestablishment by the Teucrians, who simply changed the name from Alasia to Salamis" and transferred it then to the shore on their abandoning Enkomi.
Dikaios does not exclude the historicity of the tradition according to which Teucer founded a new town at Salamine, but he says, judging from the important character of the XIIth c. remains at Enkomi, we are entitled to infer that it is unlikely that a second important town coexisted with it at such a short distance."
So ends on page 188 his "preliminary report" by reaffirming his wrong dating of the erection of the earlier compound with floor V and by deducing from the attribution of this compound to the early Iron Age and the Achaean colonization far-reaching conclusions for the history of the major archaeological site of Cyprus.
Handwritten: C. Schaeffer
Handwritten: 22.VI.50
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain