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It emerges from this second campaign of excavations that confirmation has been obtained of the existence of the four main levels identified in 1946 (1); moreover, a development of the last level, articulated in two sub-periods, has been observed towards the South of the town.
As for the cultural orientation of this civilisation, turned first towards the Asiatic continent as was already known, it bends towards the West during the fifteenth century under the effect of Achaean influence. The latter will henceforth be predominant, confirming the Syrian ceramic types and the local models in a secondary place. This evolution is clearly expressed in the stratigraphic and ceramographic observations.
The Mission found, as usual, the most cordial welcome and the most effective help from the Department of Antiquities, both in the person of its Director Mr Megaw, and in that of the Curator of the Nicosia Museum, Mr Dikaios.
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(1) Cf. C.F.A. Schaeffer, Stratigraphie Comparée et Chronologie de l'Asie Occidentale, I, § 238.
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