The new discoveries at Enkomi in Cyprus, excavation season of autumn 1950Claude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer

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during the occupation, respecting floors III and IV:

In all these houses, the level of the floor was [illegible] raised, built up relative to the previous floors.

At the same time all the doors and windows giving onto the street bordering the north façade of the Enkomi palace were walled up and permanently blocked.

This street, which follows the slight east-west slope turning away from the town, had turned during the winter rainy season into a veritable stream obstructing numerous treasures and commonly coming from the eastern quarters of the town. Higher dwelling.

We were able to identify six layers of gravel alternating with as many layers of sand, according to the true period of floods and torrential deposits of the season.

It must be added that each layer of gravel together with a layer of sand represents the fissures left by one rainy season; we have in total six consecutive layers of abundant precipitation.

The purpose of this waste ground, in the area of the old palace, a layer of alluvium more than one metre thick had been covered over. The levels of tombs corresponding to floors IV and III have been levelled, and the level of the dwellings was raised relative to the sand.

This explains the considerable reworking of floors III, corresponding to the occupation of the ruins of the palace, and is in works at the state of floor V or original building.

According to the archaeological material recovered in and on floors III and II, this later restoration dates roughly from between 1150 and 1100 or 1050 BC in round figures.