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Thus the recent discoveries at Enkomi bring a certain number of lessons new about the originality of cults in Cyprus at the beginning of the Iron Age, but at the same time the vitality of Mycenaean and earlier traditions, which is expressed by the pre-eminence of the bull cult. The sacred animal par excellence in Cyprus from the Bronze Early, and the symbol, if not the very deity, of fertility and of the continuity of this cult, from Voroua to Ayia Triada, passing through the sanctuaries of Mycenae, Ayia Jacovos and Enkomi, is quite remarkable.
On the other hand, the relations between sub-Mycenaean Greece, sub-Minoan Crete on the one hand and contemporary Cyprus appear to have been much closer than is generally said. This obscure period is not summed up as a pure and simple compartmentalisation of the various provinces of what was the koinè Mycenaean, but the expriante appears increasingly marked in Cyprus, as excavations progress.
Recently the Department of Antiquities uncovered two chamber tombs of ashlar dating from the 9th, 8th and 7th centuries, in the necropolis of Salamis, whose foundation thus seems to have followed fairly closely the definitive ruin of Enkomi-Alasia, a ruin which would be placed, in the light of the discoveries of the last campaign, towards the middle or end of the 10th century before our era, whereas the generally accepted date was around the middle of the 11th century.
Par conséquent, le hiatus chronologique entre la disparition d'Enkomi-Alasia et la fondation de la ville de Salamis qui lui a succédé au Cypro-géométrique, se trouve déjà considérablement réduit, à un siècle ou un siècle et demi au maximum, de 950 à 850 ou 800 en chiffres ronds, cependant qu'une continuité remarquable de l'occupation du site d'Enkomi-Alasia s'observe maintenant, au XI ème siècle avant notre ère.
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