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ovoid sling-bullets of baked clay, sometimes marked with signs Mycenaean, tending towards the interior of the town, attest that the defence was ensured essentially by bodies of slingers. Like the enceinte itself, the towers which measure 6 to 8 metres in diameter present a facing of large blocks and a filling of smaller stones heavily compacted. The discovery of this enceinte provided with towers explains the existence of a row of large stones set in tiers in the same manner, which emerges from the ground not far from the village of Sinda 1km west of Enkomi. This alignment which for a long time puzzled Cypriot archaeologists constitutes a rampart similar to that of Enkomi and no doubt also of the period Mycenaean. Kition [illegible] Kition at the time of Enkomi [illegible]
The University of Uppsala sent to the site a mission which, after studying our discoveries, set about clearing this year the structure at Sinda under the direction of Mr Furumark.
The pottery fragments and other remains found in contact with the enceinte at Enkomi, all of the period Late Mycenaean. None of them is later than the end of the 13th century. Our present impression is that the structure dates from the end of the 14th century and was continued with slight modifications of plan during the 13th century. It was at this period indeed that the need for protection must have made itself felt in the city during the final Mycenaean period. At the same period we see appear in the massive tombs a defensive and offensive armament (helmets, swords, daggers) which was lacking in the tombs of the 13th and of the
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