Contribution to Enkomi I, Text, Preliminary Report on the Cyprus Department of Antiquities excavations at Enkomi, The Bronze Statue of a Horned God, annotated and commented by SchaefferPorphyrios Dikaios and Claude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer

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here and before the evidence of all the deeper levels is available.

As Dr. Schaeffer has elsewhere explained (1) the towns ite at Enkomi has suffered considerably by the digging of pits in search of tombs, not only by excavators who worked on the site before Dr. Schaeffer's brilliant discovery of the town in 1934, but also by the tombplooters who bored innumerable holes all over the site. The excavator of the town remains is consequently hampered at every turn by these ubiquitous, refilled pits, which cut through the floors, destroyed stone walls, dislodged blocks and generally wrought deplorable destruction to the remains. The worst variety of such pits is that from the bottom of which tunnels were opened evidently by tomb-looters who could then, mutilated by police patrolling, work underground in search of a breach in the bedrock which might lead to the discovery of a tomb-chamber. Such tunnels are now extremely treacherous, as floors

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(1). Stratigraphie compared, 385 ff.