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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(1) Maximum height of the wall = 2.40 m.

Handwritten: in

situ. There was therefore a doorway at this point

similar block, also with a rabbet, which remains in

the point where our wall 1 joins it, opposite another

position it must have stood in the south facade at

doorjamb. Indeed before being placed in the present

angles, which indicates that it was originally a

which is dressed, has a rabbet cut along one of the

the top of the stone part. The face of this block,

in thickness was set in a horizontal position to form

block 2.05 m. in length, 0.66 m. in width and 0.47 m.

shows a peculiar feature. At the south end a large

built of mudbricks and pebbles (1). The south end

some parts the superstructure is preserved and is

large square or rectangular undressed blocks. In

side, while the whole of the upper part is built of

(0.44 m. in height and 0.25 m. in width) on the inner

derably wider than the wall, forming a broad step

ently. Its foundation is of boulders and is consi-

dug by tomb-searchers. This wall is built differ- … continues

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

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