An article on Alasia-EnkomiClaude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer

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abolishing the regime of the Mycenaean chieftains, who ruled the country during the preceding period (see below), went to settle among the native Cypriote and Mycenaean population. They imposed upon them their own way of life and took over their dwellings and even their family tombs. Through intermarriage and daily contacts with the local inhabitants, the process of substitution of one population by the other, which in this case was notably inferior in culture, may have been accomplished without undue hostility and friction.

In the Early Iron Age levels of tomb 5, not a single Mycenaean vase of the type so numerous in the preceding Late Bronze Age levels has been found. There is also complete absence of the "close style" pottery, which we have now discovered elsewhere at Enkomi-Alasia in a level of short duration at the very end of the Late Bronze Age (see below). In tomb 5, there is neither any trace of the "granary style" which, in the stratified layers and floors of the dwellings makes its appearance during the second and third phases of the Early Iron Age, to become predominant in the latest levels of the town, during the first half of the XI cen. B.C.

The numerous vases used in tomb 5 at the beginning of the Early Iron Age belong exclusively to the submycenaean pottery (see Mission en Chypre, pl.XXXV, fig.40, 43, termed decorated L.C. III ware by Furumark and debased levanto-helladic pottery by Gjerstad). We are bound to admit that the submycenaean pottery which reveals syro-palestinian influences mixed with local