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east-west, and one counts from the North gate of the city, and 25 metres east of the great and young single-shaft main street running North-South through the city. For the record, one recalls the situation respective of two of the large buildings previously discovered at Enkomi, west of this axial street, namely the Temple of the Great Horned God in bronze, between the 3rd and 4th streets, and the Coherent Residence or Building 18, between the 4th and 5th streets.
The small public square magnificently paved in stone, uncovered in 1939 and 1960, extends to the west of the dependencies of the new sanctuary, at the North-east corner of the crossroads of the Residence street and the North-South main street.
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From the street one reached the sanctuary by a forecourt six metres wide and at the back of it one crossed a porch with a stone threshold, wide of two metres. The sanctuary proper, currently found cleared, a large hall or inner courtyard, quadrangular, 10 m 30 long North-South by more than 8 metres wide 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-votos and terracotta figurines.
Except the foundations of the walls in irregular stone rubble 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 xxx is 0 m 60. One of the characteristic features of the rather mediocre architecture of this sanctuary consists in the existence of benches or low interior 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 unexplained patches some in the walls was found a few metres to the south, in addition.
Was this vast hall roofed or not, or simply bordered by annexes peripheral? It is difficult to answer with certainty. One has however uncovered, almost at the centre, two stone blocks which could have … continues
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