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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extended to the line of the facade.

The investigation of this area has not sufficiently progressed to make possible a detailed description of the original layout. The remains corresponding to the two topmost floors are all later

Handwritten: illegible

then the destruction by the conflagration after which thorough alterations took place, here as in almost every other part of the compound. Immediately below floor II walls belonging to the original building were beginning to be uncovered but here the investigation was interrupted. These walls are 23 & 22, 23, 26 and run perpendicularly to the eastern wall of the compound namely of the Main and South Building. We are not yet able to say whether simi- lar perpendicular walls exist in the northern corner of this area, where investigation is even less advanced.

What is apparent at the present stage is that most of this eastern area originally consisted of a series of rooms the wall of which abut on the eastern … continues