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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the level of floor V in the Main Building) following the destruction by conflagration. Of the original walls only the footing course of adobe and the underlying rubble foundation is preserved. On this larger dressed blocks must have once stood, which after damage in the conflagration were removed, together with other debris, to make way for walls of mudbrick, of which much evidence was found in the overlying layers.

The eastern part of the compound. (Pl.I-IV, XI.2). This area is bounded on the west by the east walls of the Main Building and of the North and South Buildings which extended it in these directions, and on the east by a parallel wall only partly uncovered the remainder extending beyond the limit of the excavated area. The southern limit is a wall which continues the facade of the South Building but the northern limit is indistinct owing to insufficient investigation at this point. It is possible that in this direction also the elongated eastern area [handwritten: /] extended … continues

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

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