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Doc. for Phot. 4.VII.51 [handwritten: handwritten note, upside down, at top of page]
New discoveries at Enkomi in Cyprus (excavation campaign 1950). by Mr Claude F.A. Schaeffer, Directeur de Recherches au Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.
The campaign was devoted essentially to the exploration of the large building discovered in 1949 in the W. part of the town. The building could be made up of 4 parts, we are now certain of this the palace of Enkomi of the second half of the 14th c. and of the 13th B.C., built on available ground at the edge of the older quarters of the town, where we have to look for the palace called the king of Alasia in the time of Amenhotep IV (Tell el Amarna). The second palace now discovered covers an area of 1900 m². It is by far the largest and, by the quality of its ashlar architecture, the finest building so far uncovered at Enkomi. It consists of a central body and two wings connected e by transverse passages. The superimposed houses consist of two paved placed on the third, forming a space between their inner faces. To augment the habitable space, the face of the first room has recesses calculated to receive the edge of the blocks of the following course. A slab worked flat on the top of the double wall forms the void and serves as support for the following course. Certain details of the construction recall the architecture of Mycenaean and Cretan, a direction in which we have still oriented our research. On the other hand votive Syria and Egypt and Anatolia provide no element of comparison.
According to the archaeological material recovered, the palace was built between 1350 and 1250 and remained in use there until about 1225 B.C. It was then that its occupation was by an attack, which were explained or finally. The residence was then reoccupied without structural change by people who used faience pottery (?) of the final or close style, identical until 1200 to that of Jalliosos (Rhodes). The events that took place between 1225 and 1200 approximately concern only the ruling class of Enkomi. The tombs of private individuals show no trace of this corresponding punctuation to the phase of the close style. The new approaches to the town installed in our palace of Enkomi, respected the large canvas of the family shut in its basement and the nomerous gold objects that had been accumulated there. The house looks at Enkomi at the end of the 13th c. was therefore cleared by a chief probably of one origin. Presumably, the pottery and the jewellery, as well as the traditions … continues
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