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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and tomb-chambers, some of which were emptied at

the time of the erection of the building tended

to produce a certain confusion in the stratigraphical

evidence, through the infiltration of earlier pottery

into the layers associated with our buildings.

Furthermore since there was a slope in the original

ground surface and since this was only partly

corrected by the survival of an earlier deposit in

the lower, southward area, extraneous fillings were

introduced to raise the floor level of the South

Building to that existing elsewhere in the compound.

Inevitably some alien and earlier pottery found its

way into the building in these fillings. One has

then in admitting the pottery to be continually on

the lookout for the extraneous, earlier sherd which

cannot be dated to date the stratum in which it was

found, except as a terminus post quem.

Handwritten: so then / no precise / accept / them

Apart from these early irregularities the

stratification of the site has been much disturbed

by recent digging of pits in search for tombs. Such

pits destroyed all the floors and intervening layers

and … continues