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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side of the same pillar, but of much poorer construction and probably of somewhat later date. Further south another east-west wall (29) was built right across the room. A perpendicular wall (28) between the middle of the new crosswall and the pillar was also built, as well as another wall from the latter towards the east wall of the room. The result of all these new walls was that the central part of the central unit was turned into a room which was subdivided into two small rooms, of which the eastern one was further subdivided. Unfortunately this part of the room including the partition walls was much destroyed by several pits dug by tomb-searchers and thus much of the evidence especially concerning the access from one room to the other has perished. It appears however that at the central part of wall 29 was a doorway permitting access from the northern part of room XIV to the western of the newly created rooms.

The second alteration concerns the south part of the room. Here two partition walls were built on either side of the pillar (46) thus isolating this part / … continues

65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain

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