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season (1950) finds made in the so similar building 18 at Enk. in and under its floor V have given me new reasons to doubt the LC III date proposed by Dik. for the construction of his ashlar building on top of which he found the horned god. It is for me very difficult, indeed at the present state of our information on Enkomi-Alasia's chronology & stratigraphy quite impossible, to imagine that two buildings so near to each other, so identical in architecture & detail could be of two different periods seperated by the catastrophic events which befall the island & its late Bronze Age Capital Alasia and at the end of LC II and before the beginning of the at first poorer LC III period. The question is indeed of first historical importance. And I hope that my careful & complete analyse of the stratigraphical, ceramological & historical position of building 18 of my 1949-50 seasons in Enkomi-Al. I, will induce Dik. to undertake the additional research into his floors V of his ashlar building for which I asked
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