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The French Archaeological Expedition to Enkomi- Alasia under Prof. C.F.A. Sch. has had another season of excavation during sept. & oct. this year and Prof. Schaeffer and his assistants Ms 7th assistant a Phot. since have just left the island. again.
The main purpose of its the exp's research, this year, was the tracing of the western town wall which had hitherto not yet been found excavated and (its connection to establish contact with the southern wall sections formerly explored by the same expedition & with the northern townwall, the central part of which has been excavated by the Department of Antiquities expedition under M. Dikaios-
The extent of the townwall is now traced along its entire length more than There are differences in details of its architectural structures show, its but as a whole the wall it is a cyclopean structure of astonishing size & strength & is well preserved practically on along its entire perimeter.
One town gate has been found in the middle of the western section where one of the street main est-west streets reaches the wall. The two extremities of the wall (drawing) are here not in the same alinement To help the defense, the system here adopted conforms to that of the "gate with chicane", known in many other ancient walled cities, but here found in its oldest version in the island.
Two other gates are supposed to have been existed at the north & south wall, they have still to be located & excavated. On the escarpment traces of three entrances to the ancient city have been could be found, which have in part been used by in modern
Margin right, written sideways: times by the villagers of Enk. to reach their fields in the part called Asalinto which | seems to have preserved the ancient name of the town | of town : Alasia.
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain