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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… area. The long axis of this building lies almost exactly north-south, and it was entered from the north. The central part is a large rectangular hall, its length irregularly divided by two massive pillars, one of which stood approximately in the centre. At the centre of the northern part, was a hearth. The side wings are narrower and comprise several rooms of small size which, in certain cases, are arranged symmetrically on the two sides. A feature worth stressing is that the central hall at the south end is longer, then the side wings forming a rectangular protection.

North and south of the Main Building two others were erected abutting on it and filling the spaces between it and the nearby streets. The tripartite style appears in the South Building which possesses a row of three rooms on the frontage and another three behind. The facade comprised two doorways of which the eastern one was later blocked and

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