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also the doubling of certain sections by a second row of slightly less bulky rocks. At one point, the rampart forms a right angle then a kind of tower or platform itself surrounded by upright rocks. Among the sherds recognised on the surface there are Mycenaean fragments of the 15th-14th c., of numerous Cypriot bowls with white slip (milk bowl) and some pieces of the ring-foot type (base ring ware) also of the Late Bronze Age; finally a few late Mycenaean fragments and others in red glazed earthenware perhaps Roman or later."
Professor Arne Furumark of the University of Uppsala who came several times to visit our excavations at Enkomi in 1947, informed me in a letter dated 11 March 1948, which has since begun excavations at Sinda, which allows us to hope soon for information on the fortifications so similar to those of Enkomi and probably contemporary.
The few pottery fragments found in contact with the enceinte of Enkomi or in its immediate vicinity carefully observed by my collaborator M. Coche de la Ferté, all date from the late Mycenaean period; none is later than the fin du XIII°siècle. Cependant il est encore difficile de fixer exactly the termini post quem and ante quem of the construction of the enceinte. We must wait for that until we have been able to clear the parts to the W. and N. of the town. However, our impression at present is that the work dates from the end of the 14th and 13th c., when the need for protection was felt in the city during the final period of the
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