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 146 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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… traction. Against the southernmost surviving part

of wall (33) abuts another wall (34) built of rectangular stone blocks, with an east-west direction. This indicates that the building extends to the west in the same way in which it extends on the east beyond the limits of the Main Building. This is also proved by other indications, particularly in the west part of the North Building (infra p. ).

The area south of room XXVI, which should have formed the counterpart of the well area in the opposite eastern wing, is not well preserved nor is its original layout clear at the present stage. But it is a surprising coincidence that we have here a well just as in the opposite eastern wing. East of the well is a piece of rubble wall (47) which rests on the bedrock and appears to have continued westwards beyond the well: it may be a remnant of a wall of the original arrangement. Further south an angular wall of rubble (45) was brought to light immediately under floor III (Pl. II). This wall rests on the rock and the floor enclosed by it was burnt everywhere and

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

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