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the original building consists of a central body of two wings [handwritten: and] joined by unfinished corridors.
The whole covers an area of 1200m2.
It is by far the largest plan and, for the quality of its layout, the finest building so far uncovered at Enkomi.
In rectangular plan, the central body 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 its storerooms are the dégogement is only partially completed.
To the right of the main door, finding a corridor and the escalier leading to the first floor.
Of this, nothing has survived except for some courses 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 courses consist of two dressed blocks set on edge like orthostates, leaving a void between their inner faces. To increase the independence, the shaft of the first step shows oval notches to receive the tenon of the blocks of the upper course.
A flat slab, laid horizontally on the top of the double wall, closes the void and serves as support for the third course.
For this stereotyped and complicated technique, we have not found so far any satisfactory parallel.
However, certain details of the construction of the masons of Tiryns, of the northern part and of the tomb sector of Mycenae, as well as of the palace of Knossos, indicate the direction in which we must seek the origin of this architecture. [handwritten: (about 5 tombs)]
Towards the Aegean and mainland Greece, the study of the also orient us
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