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The original building consists of a central block[handwritten: and] of two wings left unfinished in places.
The whole covers an area of 1900m2.
It is by far the largest and, for the quality of its architecture, the finest building so far uncovered at Enkomi.
Rectangular in plan, the central block consists of an inner courtyard around which the main rooms are grouped.
Beyond the median wall which bounds this part to the north, the palace contains a large number of other rooms and storerooms, the clearing of which is only partially completed.
To the right of the main door, there are a corridor and the staircase leading to the first floor.
Of this, nothing has survived except a few stubs of walls whose technique deserves to be mentioned.
As the section fixed to the wall on the left of the plan shows, the courses upper consist of two slabs set on edge like orthostates, leaving a gap between their inner faces. To increase the adhesion, the bed of the first course has carefully calculated notches to receive the edge of the blocks of the following course.
A flat slab, laid horizontally on top of the double wall, closes the gap and serves as a support for the third course.
For this singular and complicated technique, we have found so far no satisfactory parallel.
However, certain details of the construction of the megara at Tiryns, of the northern gate and of the circle of [handwritten: pit] graves at Mycenae, as well as of the palace at Knossos, indicate the direction in which we must [handwritten: ch] seek the origin of this architecture.
Towards the Aegean and Mycenaean Greece, the study of also points us
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