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including its final phase, the close style, the pottery than in use at Enkomi- Alasia,of much poorer aspect than in the preceding period, has been termed submycenaean ware and was, as reported above, in exclusive use in the very early Iron Age I tombs as in the town. Another significant change to be observed at this jointure is the first appearance in the island of iron weapons and tools, even in dwellings and tombs of ordinary people.
Soon after the time of floor IV, specimens of the so-called granary ware, identical with or similar to the pottery found among the ruins of Mycenae after its fall, make their first appearance, mixed with the still predominating submycenaean ware, in the Sea/-People or early Iron Age levels overlaying the great building. During this phase, corresponding to floors III and II (ca 1150-1100 B.C.), extensive structural changes were made in the dwellings (among the ruins of the former building.Doors and windows have been walled up and the floors raised twice, in connection with floods which, in the course of at least 6 years of exceptionally heavy rainfall, deposited gravel and sand layers layers to a thickness of nearly 3 feet in the east-west streets of the lower town.
Finally the dwellings corresponding to floor leve II have been destroyed by an /event of/sudden character and rebuilt or repaired immediately afterwards. Evidence is in favour of an earthquake which seemed to have damaged also other towns in eastern Cyprus,such as Sinda and Curium (see JA, XLII ,p.265; LII,p.531). After this catastrophe, which can be dated to ca 1100 B.C., began the last period of existence of the town of Enkomi-Alasia, corresponding to floor level I during which its metal industry was still big active and its general properity unimpaired. The Enkomi copper ingots are dating from this period and not from the late Bronze Age as hitherto admitted. The pottery of granary style and its local imitations is now predominant, whereas the submycenaean ware survives only in degenerate form.
Towards the end of the period, the approach of some threatening danger caused the inhabitants to bury their valuables and the statues of their gods to avoid desecration.Several of these hiding places have been found immediately under the uppermost level, floor I, of the Xlcce, town. in one of them, was found a group of bronze statues and a remarkable little bronze throne .The throne with its original seated statue seems to have been lost during the earthquake of ca.1100. During the search by the inhabitants among the ruins, only the seat could be recovered. it was provided with a new statue, which does not fit its size and construction. Finally the group was placed in hiding under
[handwritten: well known] (written above "Enkomi copper ingots" with a check mark) [handwritten: arranged] (above "dwellings") [handwritten: deposited] (above "found" in "was found", with "was" struck) … continues
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain