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the graffiti found so far are written with the aid of Syro-Mycenaean signs, of which some sixty are known. Their meaning is still mysterious.
A Cyclopean rampart made of blocks up to 4m in diameter encircled the city. Its defence was ensured mainly by archers, as indicated by the low ovoid sling-bullets of baked clay, several accumulations of which have been recovered in the city.
An earthquake ravaging the entire coastal zone of Syro-Palestine in the time of Amenophis IV, around 1365, caused serious damage which was, moreover, promptly repaired. The activity of the city continued until the beginning of the XII°siècle, et fut alors définitivement interrompue pour des reasons still unknown.
The spacious houses, provided with sanitary and hydraulic installations of astonishing modernity, contain in the basement family burial chambers accessible by underground passages from the ground floor.
Numerous objects of all kinds have been discovered, illustrating the material life in this town during its existence of nearly a millennium. The excavations will be resumed in the autumn of this year.
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain