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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bearing traces of fire, the parallel inner slabs having been removed, probably in the clearance following the conflagration.

The south part of this wing shows special features: it is an almost square area with sides measuring internally 3 m. In the south-east corner there is a circular well, its sides lined with boulders and its mouth covered with a large slab. There is a second well in the south-western part of this area rectangular in plan with sides also lined with boulders. Here a wall which closes on wall 17 surrounds the well on the east and north forming a separate compartment for it. The upper blocks of this wall are missing. Outside the wall, the south-west corner compartment, the whole of this area is paved with slabs one of which is dressed and similar to that covering the round well, while the others have a rough surface. The paved area is bordered on the north by wall 19 which/wall 18/joins up with wall 20. At the point of junction with the latter wall (point B) there is what appears to be /another

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

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