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during the occupation relating to floors III and II:
in all these houses, the floor level was consci- ment replaced in relation to the preceding floors.
At the same time all the doors and windows giving onto the street which borders the south façade of the palatial enclosure, were walled up and definitively closed off.
This street, which follows the slight east-west slope of the ground of the town, had been transformed during the winter rainy season into a true stream carrying numerous sherds and bones coming from the eastern buildings of the town, heads/representing higher ground.
We were able to identify six layers of gravel alternating with as many layers of sand, following the periodic rhythm of floods and declines.
Assuming that each layer of gravel followed by a layer of sand represents the deposits left by a rainy season, we effectively count a total of six consecutive years of particularly abundant rainfall.
At the end of this period, in the area of the palatial enclosure, a pure alluvial layer one metre thick had accumulated.
Materials of foundation corresponding to floors IV and III had to be removed, and the level of the houses had to be reached in relation to the new surface of the street lying on top of the layers of gravel and sand.
This explains the considerable raising of floor II, corresponding to the penultimate occupation of the palace ruins, and which lies at 1ulo below floor V of the original surface.
According to the archaeological material recovered in and on floors III and II, this climatic disturbance at Enkomi took place in the period around 1150 and 1100 in round figures.
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