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… earthquake until their final abandonment.
An examination of the architectural remains clarifies these successive stages and shows that the group of buildings in the compound took shape round a central building of tripartite type (1). The central part of this Main Building, entered from the north, comprised a northern section with a central hearth, from which openings flanking a central pillar lead to the southern section ending in a sort of alcove behind a massive pillar (2). Onto this Main Building, xxx xxxxxxxxxx on the north, south and east, other buildings were attached. The Northern and Southern Buildings follow the tripartite plan although the southern one has a double row each of three rooms symmetrically arranged. The layout of the East Building is still not clear, but all three in their original form belong to the first stage and with the central Building form part of a single structural undertaking.
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(1) On the existence in Cyprus and elsewhere of the tripartite scheme for civil or sacred buildings, see SOR IV, 251 ff.
(2) For similar pillars in Minoan and Mycenaean architecture or in the East, see Schaeffer, Ugaritica I, 96 ff.
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