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In 1934 I had to be satisfied with the excavation of only one of these structures. Yet it was so vast that its lim ts were not reached. I have already described this beautiful structure,[handwritten: 8] with its walls of cut stone with close-fitting edges, and the interior arrangement of which had undergone several alterations—itself an indication of long utilization. But, for want of complete clearing, the plan was difficult to interpret. A deposit of bronze objects, discovered in one of the sections, persuaded me to call the Maison des Bronzes.[handwritten: 9]
After an interruption imposed by my excavations in Syria, then by my service in the Navy of the Fighting French during the war, I was not able to resume excavations at Enkomi until the summer of 1946. The new excavations (see pl. IV, B) have confirmed my first results. Founded at the beginning of Late Cypriote II (1450-1350), judging by the pottery, the Maison des Bronzes was ravaged toward the end of this period by an earthquake which led to its burning, shook up the walls and disjoined or threw down the huge monoliths (pl. IV, C) and heavy stone table which were distributed in two of its rooms (pl. IV, D). After restoration, the Maison remained in use until the end of the Mycenaean Period. Destroyed a second time in the course of the thirteenth century, it was rearranged and divided into more modest habitations. Entirely different from those of the preceding period, the pottery and the objects in stone, bone, ivory, bronze, and iron that were recovered from these ruins are exactly the same as those of the Sub-mycenaean tombs at Enkomi,[handwritten: 10] attributed to the period between 1250 and 1050 B.C. We have not yet been able to discover any clear indication of the causes of the end of the habitation of Enkomi at the beginning of the Iron Age.
The constructions laid out in the neighborhood (pl. V, A,B) shared the fate of the Maison des Bronzes. They show the same stratigraphical and chronological division into three levels and periods, two of these of the Mycenaean
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