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material remains so far recovered in one intact & several partially looted tombs seem these oldest settlers of Enkom Alasia - Enkomi seem to have been of syrian origin. They already were trading in copper & copper or bronze ustensils & arms. Their dwellings have not yet been identified, but it is apparent that they occupied the deepest level immediately upon the native rock, some 2 to 3 meters below the present level surface. They buried their people in underground vaults hewn into the soft rock. No information is so far available as to the causes of the disappearance of these Middle Bronze Age settlers at Alasia - Enkomi. During the XVIth C. B. C. they were succeeded by a Late Bronze Age population which soon imported goods from the Aegean islands & Greece, notably Mycenae and whose prosperity and culture is impressive. From this period dates an intact tomb found by the expedition which contained more than 200 complete vases of all form & origin, some gold jewelry and a fine polychrome fayence cup. They had been deposited as funeral offerings & were found & in exactly the position in which they had been placed in the vault
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain