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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been isolated by partition walls to form a separate unit, room XXII. Of its north wall a large dressed block, with rabbetted corner still stands. This indicates a doorway leading from the room XXIV to the small unit XXII but the other doorjamb has not survived (1).

Beyond the west wall of room XXII, of which only part of the foundation survives, is a well with remains of paving with large slabs round its mouth. From the west side of the well running northwards to the wall in the north facade is a line of rubble foundation, which is separated from the west wall ( 35 ) by a narrow strip of floor, ending at the north in the small doorway in the facade. So much of the masonry has been lost in this area that it is uncertain whether the paving round the well against the west wall of room XXII extended on the / rubble

(1) The description of the walls of room XXII and of the remains immediately to the north will be reserved for a later report after further investigations have been carried out.

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

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