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 154 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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14 ie. the south wall of the central unit of the Main Building, with which it is not quite in line, while the eastern wall (1) abuts on wall 17 which is the south wall of the east wing of the Main Building. Unfortunately a pit dug by tomb-searchers destroyed the junction in the latter case. This wall (1) is longer than the west wall of the building because the eastern wing of the Main Building is shorter than the central unit in which rooms IX and X form a projecting piece. Thus at the time of the erection of the South Building an additional room was formed (XI) filling the angle between the projecting piece (rooms IX-X) and the south wall of the east wing (wall 17).

Handwritten: illegible annotation

I have distinguished two parts of the west wall, the southern (wall 7) and the northern (wall 9) because these two parts are differently built. The southern portion (wall 7) consists of an upper course of large blocks resting on a lower part of boulders resting on the bedrock. The total height is 1.60 m. and the large blocks, which are not dressed, measure

Handwritten: 13

Handwritten: 14

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

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