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Two other gates are supposed to have existed at the north & south walls; they have still to be located & excavated. On the escarpment, traces of three sea side entrances to the city have been located, which, in part, have been used down to modern times by the villagers to reach their fields in the low laying part called Asaleitos, name which seems to have preserved the name of the ancient capital city : Alasia, known through Egyptian & Syrian documents as far back as the XVth c. B. C. We have now gained the impression that Alasia has been founded by a people having come over seas and at the mouth of the great potamos draining the central part or Mesaora of the island by a people having come overseas and which have fortified the harbourtown against an attack from the landside. The finds made in contact with the outer face of the landside wall are all of the latest period of the town XIIth and XIth c. B C. The wall thus seems to have been mainly used in the latest period of the town before its final destruction before approx. 1050 B. C. The exact date of the building of the townwall, which because of its extent & size must have taken some time,
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain