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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… clearly marked all through the work and of eliminating

all danger of intrusions in the material collected

from the undisturbed strata, but gave the site a contu-

sing appearance with the floors scarred by pits of all

shapes and sizes . (see Pl. IX, 1).

The collection of the sherds from the surface to

the topmost floors proceeded in the various squares

by depths of 0.20 m. or more, but once the first floors

were reached and rooms distinguished we collected the

pottery and other finds by floors and by layers between

the floors. Levels were taken from a fixed point on

the rocky plateau bordering the site on the east,

which was considered as zero point. The levels, quoted

therefore mean so much below this point. The surface

of the ground in the area excavated by us had a mean

level 10.50 m. below zero and the deepest level reached

on the bedrock is 13.34 m. which represents a deposit

of an approximate total depth of 3 m.

The total number of rooms identified is 33 but

for the purpose of this report I have studied the