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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walls 25 and 27 in the eastern wing. Wall 30 is composed of a lower course of undressed blocks on which larger dressed blocks must have rested. Of them only one is preserved on the western portion of the wall (length 1.34 m.; thickness 0.56 m. and height 0.84 m.). South of this wall is room XXVI which communicated with the central room of the Main Building by a doorway. North of the same wall is room XXV, which also communicated with the same room by a large opening equal to the whole width of the room. Wall 31 touches on the east wall 15 a, which is the northern end of wall 15, i.e. the west wall of the central room. Thus the two rooms XXV and XXVI form the counterparts of the two opposite rooms XV and XXVII in the eastern wing. North of wall 31 we have another room which in its original state must have been the counterpart of room XXIX in the eastern wing. We therefore have not only an equal number of rooms but also rooms of the same size as their counterparts in the opposite wing, although in some points this is not certain owing to destruction … continues

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

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