• Enkomi (also Mallia) is a 2nd millennium BC archaeological site on the eastern coast of Cyprus some distance from the village of Enkomi. The site appears...
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  • millennium BC archaeological site also named Enkomi. Enkomi is under the de facto control of Northern Cyprus. In 1974, Enkomi had about 800 Greek Cypriot...
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    near the site of Enkomi and that suitable clays are close to the sites of Kalavasos and Alassa (itself a possible cognate of Alashiya). These sites, especially...
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    Salamis, Cyprus (category Historic sites in Cyprus)
    buried in one of the big tumuli near Enkomi. Salamis remained the seat of the governor. In 306 BC, Salamis was the site of a naval battle between the fleets...
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  • any real length was a clay tablet discovered in 1955 at the ancient site of Enkomi, near the east coast of Cyprus. It was dated to ca. 1500 BC, and bore...
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    trade relations and the growing of urban centres. Chief among them was Enkomi, near modern Famagusta, though several other harbour towns also sprang up...
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    present-day Larnaca, has revealed cyclopean walls. Additionally, Nitovikla, Enkomi and Maa Paleokastro use Cyclopean masonry. In Italy, polygonal masonry is...
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    contribution to decipherment. The most important tablets are mainly found in Enkomi and Paphos. Efforts to collect and publish the known corpus began in the...
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    La porte des lions De Boccard", Paris, 1940 Schaeffer, C., "Fouilles à Enkomi et à Arslantepe", in Comptes Rendies de l'Academie des Inscription et Belles...
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  • (1931), in the Neolithic site of Khoirokitia, in the Chalcolithic site of Erimi (1933–1935), the Bronze Age site of Enkomi, as well as Sotira (1934)...
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    association significantly. In the Bronze Age the first cities, such as Enkomi, were built in Alashiya (today Cyprus). Systematic copper mining began,...
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    Pyla-Kokkinokremos (category Archaeological sites in Cyprus)
    The site of Pyla-Kokkinokremos, located on a rocky plateau, lies about 10 km east of Larnaca, ancient Kition, and some 20 km southwest of Enkomi, two...
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    artwork with Mycenaean inspiration, c. 1400–1200 BC.[citation needed] From Enkomi. British Museum. Indian carnelian beads, white design etched with acid,...
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    shape of an oxhide at the British Museum website. Oxhide ingot found at Enkomi, Cyprus, now in the British Museum Bronze stand showing oxhide ingot-bearer...
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    Kition (category Archaeological sites in Cyprus)
    uses the name Kition - AEK Kition. Cities of the ancient Near East Idalium Enkomi Kourion Ten city-kingdoms of Cyprus History of Cyprus Lefkaritis Tomb Zeno...
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  • Arena Starčevo culture Stari Grad Plain El Chorro de Maita Antiphonitis Enkomi Idalium Khirokitia Klimonas Kykkos Monastery Notre Dame de Tyre Panagia...
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    Bronze "Horned God" from Enkomi (12th century BC), Cyprus Archaeological Museum, Nicosia. Bronze "Ingot God" from Enkomi (12th century BC), Cyprus Archaeological...
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    in and about the Mesaorea district alone, of which one, that at Enkomi, near the site of Salamis, has yielded the richest Aegean treasure in precious...
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  • After the Second World War he began excavating the Late Bronze Age site of Enkomi. He was curator for the Prehistoric and Gallo-Roman Museum, Strasbourg...
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    Thapsos (category Archaeological sites in Sicily)
    Thapsos is to be found at the other end of the Mycenaean world, on Cyprus, at Enkomi near Famagusta. It is almost as if a blueprint for a trading colony had...
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    Gournia (category Minoan sites in Crete)
    copper ingots in the Eastern Mediterranean: results from Gelidonya, Gournia, Enkomi and Mathiati", Bronze Age Metallurgy on Mediterranean Islands. In Honor...
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  • org/stable/43498658 Dikaios, P. 1969a: Enkomi. Excavations 1948–1958. Volume I, Mainz Dikaios, P. 1971: Enkomi. Excavations 1948–1958. Volume II, Mainz...
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  • Ugarit (category Bronze Age sites in Syria)
    ISBN 9789042933750. Schaeffer C. F. A., "Nouvelles découvertes à Ras Shamra-Ugarit et à Enkomi-Alasia (Chypre) en 1953", CRAI, pp. 97‑106, (1954). Yon, Marguerite, "Artifacts...
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    city of Enkomi was destroyed, the archaeological evidence is not clear. Of the two buildings dating to the end of the LC IIC excavated at Enkomi, both had...
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    Lala Mustafa Pasha Mosque (category Burial sites of the House of Lusignan)
    Cyprus". Cypnet.co.uk. Retrieved 2013-10-06. "Northern Cyprus, Magusa, Enkomi". Ministry of Economy and Tourism / North Cyprus. Archived from the original...
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    Ekron (category Bronze Age sites in Israel)
    scapula similar to those found in the 12th and 11th century BCE shrines at Enkomi and Kition on Cyprus. In the lower city, along the ridge of the southern...
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    the seat of the former province of Eordaia. Ptolemaida is twinned with: Enkomi, Cyprus Pantelis Kapetanos, football player Ieroklis Michailidis, actor...
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    of 'Cyclopean'-type walls at the very beginning of the LC IIIA period at Enkomi, Kition, Sinda and Maa-Palaeokastron was due to the arrival of Mycenaean...
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    0 sq mi) Δάλι Dali Engomi Nicosia 20,502 9.49 km2 (3.66 sq mi) Έγκωμη Engomi/Enkomi Kythrea Nicosia 3,284 31.8 km2 (12.3 sq mi) Κυθρέα Değirmenlik Lakatamia...
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    Nitovikla, Agia Eirini, Marion, Idalion, Amathus, and Enkomi. They investigaed around 25 sites all over the island during the short time of four years...
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