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… bodies and tomb furnishings had been set in place. The proportion of individual tombs in contrast with family or collective vaults, is greater.
In addition to these characteristics, the early Iron Age tombs of Enkomi have supplied numerous objects which recall the Mycenaean tradition, and affirm the proximity of the two periods. First of all there are certain painted vases inspired by prototypes used in the preceding period, as well as numerous diadems in gold leaf, embossed with stylized rosettes or simple rows of circles (pl. VII 3,A). Compared with their Mycenaean models, they are clumsily copied; the metal standard varies greatly, sometimes it is very low. Other reminiscences of the Mycenaean epoch are the batons of ivory (spindleset) decorated with a stylized pomegranate at the end and the scale decoration with a central point engraved on the facing of the ivory handles and on the necks of stone vases.
The profound differences raised on one hand and the similarities established between certain types of objects on the other, are best explained by the hypothesis of the more or less immediate contamination of the Final Bronze Age period by a foreign element, which then assimilated part of the Mycenaean customs and traditions with which the aborigines were permeated. This hypothesis is in complete accord with the happenings which, towards the end of the thirteenth century, took place in the countries bordering the Mediterranean, where, in many places, they were the cause of population changes.
At Enkomi we observe that these changes were accompanied by a certain difference of customs peculiar to Egypt or countries under its influence: the use of stone vases and that of scarabs with illegible inscriptions. That was probably the result of the contacts established by the invasions between countries which had been penetrated by the Egyptian civilisation, especially Syria and Palestine, with the surrounding regions. Usually similar shapes in reverse follow very … continues
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