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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by the builders in designing the compound. Instead of conceiving a general plan with some unity, they designed a main tripartite building in the centre of the site, to which they added other subsidiary portions two of which, the northern and southern, were also of the tripartite type (see also infra p. ...).

The South Building is much smaller than the main one and occupies the width of the central and eastern rooms of the main tripartite block; that it did not also comprise the width of the western wing of the Main Building is easily explained if this wing did not extend as far south as the east wing. On the other hand room I lying outside the South Building forms a sort of pendant for the rooms (XXV and XXVI) of the west wing of the Main Building. But the whole of the area west of wall 7-9-10-15 will, it is hoped, be better elucidated when we next resume the excavations.

Of the two main outer walls of the South Building, the western (7-9) abuts at its nort end on wall

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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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