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Handwritten: 67
The original building consists of a central body, of two wings ventées by transverse enfilade.
The whole covers an area of 1500m².
It is by far the largest and, for the quality of its architecture, the finest building so far uncovered at Enkomi.
The rectangular plan of the central body consists of a terrace 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 whose clearing is not perfectly completed.
To the right of the main door, there was a tomb and the staircase leading to the first floor.
Nothing has been brought to light, with the exception of a few [illegible] of walls whose technique deserves to be mentioned.
As the large-scale section drawing shows, the upper courses consist of two slabs set on edge like orthostates, leaving a gap between their inner faces. To increase adhesion, the bed of the first course has notches wedged to receive the edge of the slabs of the following course.
A flat slab, laid horizontally on top of the double wall, closes the gap and is in agreement with the adjoining edge.
For this singular and complicated technique, we have found no satisfactory parallel.
However, certain details of the construction of the corners of the north-western gate and of the central body of Tiryns, as well as of the palace of Mycenae, as well as at the [illegible] of the town, indicate the direction in which we must seek the origin of this architecture.
But the idea of the form and thickness of these constructions also leads us to the study of [illegible].
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