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… east-west if one counts from the North Gate of the city, and 25 metres east of the great and so far unique artery oriented North-South of the city. [handwritten: I recall here] For the record, one will recall the situation respective of two of the great buildings previously discovered at Enkomi, west of this axial artery, namely the Temple of the Great Horned God in bronze, between the 3rd and 4th streets, and the Achaean Residence or Building I8, between the 4th and 5th streets.
Handwritten: published in Enkomi-Alasia, vol. I by Ch. Schaeffer
The small public square splendidly paved in stone, uncovered in 1959 and 1960, extends to the west of the dependencies of the new sanctuary, at the North-East angle of the crossroads of the street of the Résidence sidence and the North-South artery.
From the street one reached the sanctuary by a forecourt six metres wide and at the far end of it one crossed a porch with a stone threshold, wide of two metres. Of the sanctuary proper, there are currently cleared a large hall or inner courtyard, quadrangular, of 10 m 30 in length North-South by over 8 metres in width east-west, and a apparently hypostyle hall, adjoining to the west, measuring 4 m. by 3, to the west of which other small rooms, very ruined, preserved the majority of the ex-voto and terracotta figurines.
Only the foundations of the walls in rubble of irregular stone are generally preserved, the walls themselves, built of reddish mud brick having almost totally disappeared, except for a few traces. The average thickness of the walls of the is 0 m 60. One of the characteristic features of the rather mediocre architecture of this sanctuary consists in the existence of internal benches or low walls backed against all the walls of the main hall. These masonry benches are not without recalling those well known from the Minoan and Sub-Minoan cult places of Crete. The north wall of the hall still showed significant traces of a coating white in lime or plaster, of which a number of plaques fitted into one another was found a few metres to the south, fallen.
Was this vast hall roofed(or not), or simply bordered by awnings peripheral? It is difficult to answer with certainty. However, one has uncovered, almost at the centre, two stone blocks which could have [handwritten: served]
Figure: handwritten annotations in margins, including circled notes "montrer", "plan dia NB Sanctuaire", "chapiteaux ... ", "dia NB"; labels: "montrer", "plan dia NB Sanctuaire", "chapiteaux non visible", "dia NB"
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain