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been torn away; we do not know whether the external face had been entirely built without the use of mortar.
A mortar of clayey earth mixed with stone chips seems to have been used for bonding the smaller blocks of the internal face of the enclosure, fig. as was also the case for other Mycenaean enclosures (1). [handwritten: V heur, circled] [handwritten: next to the Sea]
The part of the enclosure south which rises towards the cliff, more especially examined in 1947, presents a peculiarity which does not existin the other sections so far cleared. It is reinforced by massive square towers set at irregular distances varying between 5 and 9m. Projecting from the external face of the enclosure by 2 to 3 metres, they allowed the defenders to cover the foot of the walls, fig. Like the enclosure itself, the towers which measure from 4m to 5m in diameter, present a facing of large blocks and a fill of smaller stones firmly packed.
Mr Dikaios, curator of the Nicosia Museum, during a visit to the enclosure at Enkomi, drew our attention to the existence of a rowof stones [illegible] arranged in the same manner emerging from the ground not far from the village of Sinda 16km to the W. of Enkomi. An examination on the spot by the architects of the Mission, P.Pironin and W.Forrer and the assistant archaeologist E.Coche de la Ferté, was recorded by the latter in the excavation journal under the date of 16 Oct. 1947: "There are indeed at Sinda alignments of rocks forming a rampart similar to that of Enkomi. One observes there
(1) G.Peerot et C.Chipiez, Histoire de l'Art, VI, Paris, 1894, p.269 after W.Dörpfeld.
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