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Note on the Mycenaean Enclosure of Enkomi.
In the preliminary report of our excavation campaign in the island of Cyprus in 1946 which Mr Charles Picard kindly agreed to accept in the Revue Archéologique (VIth series, vol. XXVII, 1947, pp.129-149), we reported the discovery of an enclosure of the type Cyclopean which protected the still anonymous town, on which depends the well-known necropolis of Enkomi (1). During 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 course beyond it by soundings.
The enclosure everywhere rests on the rocky bedrock which, at 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: on the two faces] is filled with a rubble of stones. It was almost everywhere robbed 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 mixing. The thickness
(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 seq.; E.Gjerstad et collaborateurs, The Swedish Cyprus Expedition, I, Stockholm, 1934, p.467 et seq.; C.F.A.Schaeffer, Missions en Chypre, Paris, 1936, p.67 et seq.; E.Sjöqvist, Problems of the Late Cypriote Bronze Age, Stockholm, 1940; J.L.Myres, Excavations in Cyprus, 1913, in Annual of the British School at Athens, XLI; C.F.A.Schaeffer, Stratigraphie comparée et chronologie de l'Asie Occidentale, I, p.353 et seq.
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