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Printed: MINISTÈRE DES AFFAIRES ÉTRANGÈRES / LIBERTÉ ÉGALITÉ FRATERNITÉ / RÉPUBLIQUE FRANÇAISE / PARIS (faint, ghosted letterhead)
beginning of the 14th century.
We have not yet been able to find the point where the enceinte joined the cliff which forms the eastern limit of the town. Before reaching it, the enceinte makes a bend and extends beyond in the southern direction. One must admit also that the cliff which overhangs the town and screens it from view on the sea side must also have been crowned, with a wall. [handwritten: /] But on the rock which outcrops everywhere here at the surface, it no traces remain. [handwritten: /] On the other hand, the cliff which still serves even today as a quarry must have been considerably eroded over the centuries.
In the parts of the enceinte uncovered so far [handwritten: /] still we have not found any certain traces of gates. [handwritten: /] But at the west end of our excavations, a construction appears which could indicate the existence a little further on, of a gate or postern. Here too we have cleared houses crossed by a lane parallel to the alignment of the rampart, fig. The two upper levels date from the Sub-Mycenaean period; they rest on a Late Bronze level covering lower down a layer of Late Bronze remains final Middle Bronze which rests directly on the rock.
When the clearing of the enceinte of Enkomi has been pushed further, it will be possible to proceed with the comparative study of similar works of Mycenaean Greece and those which will certainly be found elsewhere on the island. We will then also see to what extent military architectu[illegible]re Mycenaean influenced later works, such as those of Idalion so well studied by our Swedish colleagues.
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain