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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Scan 208 of document 34 CDF art. 168-1 (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 Schaeffer), typed in English. The transcription follows.

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… undertaking, but the stratigraphical evidence is not everywhere complete and we must therefore reserve final judgement until after the excavations are completed and the deepest levels reached everywhere.

At the time of floor V a severe conflagration damaged the greater part of the compound, the damage being less serious in the protecting part of the central room of the Main Building and in the South Building. Elsewhere the conflagration damaged not only the superstructure, which collapsed in a burning state, but also a good deal of the dressed stone blocks of the walls. Following this disaster the debris was cleared out and the various parts of the compound were reconstructed but with considerable alterations. The large central part of the Main Building was divided into several units and the layout of the South Building was changed. Alterations were also carried out to the North Building and to the eastern part of the compound, the plan of which … continues

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