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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mouth of a well. It is not possible to say whether this well existed before the erection of the facade wall and was incorporated in building the latter as the investigation of the well filling is incomplete. Nor is it clear how the well was fitted into the upper masonry of the facade because the latter is not preserved. Round the south half of the well (the mouth of which is 0.60 m. across) the masonry continues a little higher and is formed of stones the edge of which is curved for the mouth of the well. Immediately west of the well there seems to have been a small doorway in the facade.

Of the walls of room XXI (35 and 36) only the lower parts survive, ie. the footing slabs with the underlying boulders, forming the foundation for upper blocks. That such existed is evidenced on wall 36 where at some points remnants of upper blocks destroyed by fire still survive. In some parts of the same wall even the footing slabs were removed thus exposing the underlying boulders. Both these walls abut to the north on the facade of the building and to

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