Document·34 CDF art. 168-1·1949

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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Scan 121 of document 34 CDF art. 168-1 (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 Schaeffer), typed in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Collège de France, Paris, 34 CDF art. 168-1, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

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Between walls 30 and 31, the wall (15) breaks off, providing here open access from room XIV to room XXV, but it continues from the east end of wall 31 to the north wall of the room. Here also only the lower course exists with later additions of rubble.

This completes the description of the central unit of the Main Building in its original state so far as can be seen in the present stage of the excаvation. But, as already mentioned, various alterations took place at the time of floor V. It is assumed that following the conflagration on this floor the debris of the walls and roof was removed and the floor made clean again. On this floor several changes took place, which altered the original character of the room (Pl.III).

Two main alterations took place, the first in the central and the second in the south part of the room. In the central part a wall between the central pillar and the west wall of the room was built, in the space where there had originally been an opening. At present there exists a similar wall on the other / side

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