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 161 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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… in the facade of the building which was later (floor V) disused and walled-up, the east doorjamb being removed and used in the repair of the east wall (Pl.XIII,9). This operation formed part of general rearrangements both of the interior of the South Building and of the facade about which I shall speak presently. The re-use of the doorjamb in the east wall shows that the upper part of this wall had suffered some damage prior to these re-arrangements.

Originally the South Building was composed of two rows of three rooms, one occupying the frontage and the other row backing onto the Main Building. Of the three front rooms adjoining the facade the central was large while the two side ones were smaller. Later, however, at the time of floor V, which is contemporary with floor V in the Main Building considerable rearrangements were carried out. The partition wall 2 between rooms III and VI was demolished (1) and a / new

(1) Only the dressed courses were removed, the foundation of boulders was left and was later buried under the successive floors.

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