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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eastern walls of the Main and South Buildings. This confirms the unity of these two buildings as well as showing that the eastern area was closely related to them, the only obscure corner being the northeastern one. The walls of these rooms (23 a, 22, 23, 26) are of rubble but originally they must have possessed the usual footing courses of alabe and an upper one of dressed blocks. That this was so is proved by wall 22, the west end of which abuts on wall 17, and which still possesses the courses of dressed alabe resting on the rubble foundation. It would seem that following the destruction of this part of the building by conflagration not only the dressed blocks but also most of the underlying courses of alabe were removed together with the debris which resulted from the conflagration. Following this the whole area was rearranged. With the exception of the wall 22 the early walls were dispensed with and a new plan was conceived. Between wall 22 and the southern facade wall, a large room (XII) was created (Pl.X.2) the southern part of which was later turned into an independent … continues