2nd and 3rd seasons at Enkomi, excavation notebook no. 2Claude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer

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… dressed stones — but by the absence in this point region for a reason unknown to me, of fine Mycenaean tombs cut into the rock and consequently of the pottery that accompanies them (fine Mycenaean pottery, base-ring ware). This theory needs, of course, to be confirmed. For the moment it rests on: a hypothesis: the pottery called by Fur. cilician ware is of or related Cypriot manufacture, which is not implausible given its abundance. an observation the pottery of the tombs is not the same as that of the houses. a historical principle poor quality does not necessarily mean degeneration of a style or a technique but may correspond to a clumsy imitation but an early one, of an imported technique. — Finally, to conclude this stratigraphic summary, let us say that I do not find in the N.W. Q any traces of the final destruction of the town after the period