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Note on the Mycenaean Enceinte at Enkomi.
In the preliminary report of our excavation campaign in the island of Cyprus in 1946, which Mr Charles Picard kindly agreed to publish in the Revue Archéologique (VIth series, t.XXVII, 1947, p.129-149), we reported the discovery of a Cyclopean-type enceinte which protected the still anonymous town to which the well-known necropolis of Enkomi belongs (1). In the course of our excavations in 1947, we were able to clear this remarkable structure over a length of 160 metres along the southern perimeter of the town, and to follow its line beyond by soundings.
The enceinte everywhere sits on the rock table which, at the places excavated so far, lies 1m 50 to 2m below the present level. The wall consists of two rows of large slabs forming the facing. [handwritten: V] The interval [handwritten: between the two faces] is filled with a rubble of stones. It has almost everywhere been torn out after the abandonment of the town, whose ruins served as a quarry. The rubble is strongly compacted, fig. the little earth filling the interstices seems to come from infiltration and not from an intentional mixture,. The thickness
Figure: marginal bracket and hand-drawn mark in left margin beside the paragraph "L'intervalle… blocage"; labels: none
(1) Here is the essential bibliography for this site: A.S. Murray, A.H.Smith and H.B.Walters, Excavations in Cyprus, London, 1900, p.1 et suiv.; E.Gjerstad et collaborateurs, The Swedish Cyprus Expedition, I, Stockholm, 1934, p.467 et suiv.; C.F.A.Schaeffer, Missions en Chypre, Paris, 1936, p.67 et suiv.; E.Sjöqvist, Problems of the Late Cypriote Bronze Age, Stockholm, 1940; J.L.Myres, Excavations in Cyprus, 1913, dans Annual of the British School at Athens, XLI; C.F.A.Schaeffer, Stratigraphie Comparée et Chronologie de l'Asie Occidentale, I, p.353 et suiv.
Handwritten: 06/7/1948
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