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horses in EC III ASee Iraq 1940 Dikaios New Cyl. Art.Mallow art. in Syria.… to about 1900 (AASOR VI, 1924-25. BASOR, 1938, p. 18) Ham. down to 1870 instead 2120. — Minoan scholars so far held to the earlier dates. Pendlebury places Minoan Vase de 6A in XXIIth cent [= 2200-2100]. Inclusion of Cyprus should settle question, esp. when relations with Ras Sh. & Tarsus become clearer. — Part for date also important : horse squeleton found in tomb EC III A period at Lapithos (SCE, 1, p. 143, L. 322 B). Horses are first known in Troy in 6th City (Middle Br Age), in Mesop. during 1st dyn. of Babyl. (Egypt not until Middle & New K. Into Cyprus horse must have been brought from outside [cert. Syria] Their bones in EC III A tombs have interest comparable to that of imported pot. Fixing of dates is primary arch. need, Cretan Vase found in Cyprus = arch. signpost. Gs. believed that Cyp. had no direct relations with Crete & Cycl. during Early Br A. If one considers this Mino. Vase in conjunction with the Minoan minerals, the gold & silver jewelry reminiscent of Mochlos, the trough-spouted vase 6B 8 with its Pyrgos parallels, good straws to indicate that there was a wind blowing from Crete to Cyprus during EC III. See also Myres Handb p. 15., nos 42, 43. Money Coutts has brought Cretan Commer to Syria during Early Min. II period (Berythus, III, 1936, p. 135). There is little doubt that Syria was at that time in communication with Cyprus. I think that Middle Br. Age culture evolved in Cyprus under distinct Aegean influence". [See Stewart article : An Imported pot from Cyprus, PEFQ, July, 1939, p. 162-168]
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain