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traditions, was in exclusive use among the population of Enkomi- Alasia at the very beginning of the Early Iron Age I period, posterior to the latest specimens of the Mycénaean pottery or close style and before the first vases of the granary style had reached the island.
In the Enkomi tomb, this submycenaean pottery is associated with seals, cylinders and other finds recognized as being typical of the Sea People and Philistine occupation levels of the town, dating from the beginning of the XII.cen. B.C. It is therefore probable that the submycenaean pottery was used by these invadors after their settlement in the island, before their illfated attempt to enter Egypt where Ramses III defeated them by sea and land during the eighth year of his reign (ca. 1163 B.C.).
The fact that in Enkomi tombs and levels contemporary with the Sea People and Philistine invasion, no specimens of the so called Philistine pottery have hitherto been found, is another pointer to the conclusion already arrived at by M. Dussaud (Civilisations Préhelléniques, p. 302) et W. Heurtley (Quart. Dep. Ant. Palestine, V. 1936) that this particular style of pottery has no relationship with the biblical Philistines.
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