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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But it is easy to imagine that in a conflagration which ravaged the adjoining Main Building no part of the compound could escape entirely undamaged. This is particularly true in the case of the South Building where considerable alterations were effected contemporaneously with those carried out to the Main Building at the time of the Floor V conflagration. We shall see that the alterations to the South Building were undertaken at the time of Floor V which is almost at the same level as Floor V in the Main Building. The contemporaneity of the alterations to the two buildings is significant because it suggests a connection between the two and strengthens the assumption that the South Building, although subsidiary, formed with the Main Building and the other annexes part of a single connected group of buildings. There is independent evidence that when originally constructed the South Building and the other annexes though later than the Main Building formed with it part of a single constructional undertaking. This is of special interest as it reveals the methods used of special interest as it reveals the methods used by

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