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 217 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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building (rooms VI and III). In weighing-up the ceramic evidence from these rooms it is necessary to bear in mind its limitations, for the excavation of these rooms has not everywhere been carried down to the rock. However care has been taken to complete the evidence from these rooms by trial soundings below the earliest floor of the building at vital points and it seems unlikely that further excavations will necessitate much revision of the picture so far obtained. [handwritten: plat in the sacred spot] Nevertheless, this is only a provisional report and the results here set out should be treated with the necessary reserve. [handwritten: alors: 0+1+0 = Shy / step forward + backward / Vanée]

Room XIV (pl.XXV-XXIX).

This room is the northern part of the large central unit of the Main Building. Its earliest floor (V) rests on the bedrock but its central part seems to overlie a large cavity, possibly a tomb-chamber, which before the erection of the building was filled with well-packed boulders over which the floor was

Handwritten: found later connected or not to the building?

laid. In the centre of the floor, which is of lime marl, is a raised square platform (L.1.20 m.), the /surface

Handwritten: Apad

Handwritten: X

65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain

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