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Mycenaean civilisation. We have noted elsewhere the appearance of offensive and defensive weapons among the funerary offerings at Enkomi, which indicates a marked state of insecurity on the island in the middle of the 13th c. (1). On the other hand, it seems that the town had among its defenders corps composed of slingers; we have indeed found in 1946, deposits of sling bullets in earthenware in layers earlier than the earthquake which had damaged the town in the middle of the 14th c. (2). Its organisation military must therefore have begun in the first half of this century.
We have not yet been able to find the point where the south enclosure joined the cliff which forms the eastern limit of the town. Before reaching it, the enclosure which here follows approximately the east-west direction, makes a bend and continues beyond in the south direction. It must also be admitted that the cliff which overhangs the town and screens it from view from the sea side, must have been crown ed likewise by a wall. But on the rock which outcrops here everywhere at the surface, no traces of it remain. On the other hand, the cliff which still serves today as a quarry must have been considerably eroded over the centuries.
In the parts of the Enkomi enclosure uncovered so far we have not found any certain traces of gates. But at the west end of our excavations, a structure takes shape which could herald the existence a little further on, of a gate or postern. Here too, we have cleared houses crossed
(1)Stratigraphie Comparée I, p.389 et suiv.
(2)Revue Archéologique, 1947, p.147.
Handwritten: après "sud" ... "est-ouest"?
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain