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… extensive compound there is one long room with a central hearth, is at that stage at least premature, <u>and dangerous</u> for it introduces the idea of an eventual [handwritten: a]egean or greek influence, which danger is clearly shown p.178 of Dikaios' summary, we are soon reaching.
P.171: The <u>humble</u> character of the earlier structures belonging to LC I is mentioned; this tendency to minimize the structures before the socalled LC III buildings serves the general spirit of the interpretation, but it is dangerous, even more, it is wrong.
P.172. Here is another serious statement, the consequences of which have probably escaped Dikaios, otherwise he would have tried to explain me why he reversed his first statements in his letters to me and undermines in this way one of the main results of my work at Enkomi, that of the discovery of the town site of Bronze Age period, to which belong the majority of the tombs so far found at Enkomi. The statement reads: "We also found evidence that the site had been used as a cemetery." And he explains: "In the eastward extension of the excavated area, he found a Middle Cypriot tomb entirely emptied with a LC III wall built in it. In other words, at the time of the Middle Cypriot tomb there was no town on that site. How can Dikaios rule out the possibility, without having explored his area below floor V and earlier floors?
Another tomb, he reports here, was found immediately outside the northern façade of the compound which passed along the edge of the dromos. This is the tomb of which Dikaios wrote to me in his letter during the dig, May 30th 1949, in the following terms: "As regards the relations of the houses with the tombs, here is what I have been able to observe: just outside the northern limit of the palace I found a tomb. The northern "façade" of the palace is built in such a way that the wall is aligned with one of the sides of the dromos: here is a sketch: This indicates that the architect took the dromos into account. Unfortunately the tomb is looted, but it contains a great deal of LC II pottery, including Mycenaean pottery in fragments. This indicates that the tomb had been utilised during the period of the palace. Elsewhere we found tombs of the Middle Bronze (one intact) in one of which a formidable Mycenaean wall had been construit."
This discovery gave me great pleasure at the time, for it confirmed one of the main arguments of my demonstration of the townsite and its character: a) that the tombs and walls of LC II are contemporary and that the site in the Bronze Age was not a
Figure: hand-drawn blue sketch of a tomb plan with three rectangular features along a curved dromos-like passage and a north arrow; labels: N
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