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Mycenaean civilisation. We have reported 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 units composed of slingers; we have indeed found in 1946, deposits of sling bullets of 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 enceinte joined the cliff which forms the eastern limit of the town. Before reaching it, the enceinte 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 shields it from view on the sea side, must have been crowned 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 as a quarry today must have been considerably eroded over the centuries.
In the parts of the Enkomi enceinte uncovered so far we have not found any certain traces of gates. But at the western end of our excavations, a structure emerges which could herald the existence a little further on, of a gate or potere. Here too, we have cleared houses crossed
(1)Stratigraphie comparée I, p.389 et suiv.
(2)Revue Archéologique, 1947, p.147.
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