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 131 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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… short of the south end of the central room thus giving the southernmost part of the latter the appearance of a projection.

Certain structural points should be stressed here: as I have already explained, the east wall (12) of the projection is continued by wall 17 and then walls 18 and 19 the latter being continued by wall 20, ie. the east wall of the central room of the Main Building. In the area enclosed by walls 17, 18 and 19 we have the wells and in addition in the angle formed by walls 19 and 20 a probable well formed in the latter wall at point B. All these walls appear to be one single unit built at the same time. The remaining portion of the east wall of the east wing of the building (24), although part of the original plan, seems to have been built as an independent unit and it actually abuts on the south on wall 19. In fact this wall shows different method of construction namely of large rectangular or square undressed blocks. In this connection it resembles wall 1 which is on the same line and forms the east side of the South Building. It appears then that the back bone of the / whole … continues

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