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

surface of which was heavily burnt and is therefore a hearth. On its north-western corner was a rectangular stone, 0,46m. in length, 0,34m in width and 0,22m. in thickness. This hearth was formed on a layer of broken pottery which was placed for the purpose on the floor of the room (pl.XXIII, 7-9). This pottery therefore represents the current wares at the time immediately following the erection of the building and is therefore of great chronological importance. It includes the side-spouted jug T58 a (pl.XXV, 2,5) which is decorated with antithetical stemmed spirals (cf. Furumark, Analysis, Fig.63, mot. 51, 19) which is characteristic of the late Mycenean III C: and of the thirteenth -

Handwritten: Stratigraphy clear

1 e., i.e. beginning of the twelfth century B.C. The shape is also characteristic of the same period and

Handwritten: and floor

is a favourite one in Philistine pottery (1). A

Handwritten: pottery

pattern similar to that which recurs on another fragmentary vase from the hearth foundation of

Handwritten: stratigraphical

Handwritten: after or before

Handwritten: destruction

(1) Furumark, op. cit. p. 336 and in another fragment of another side-spouted jug comes from room XXVII, pl. IXIX,2.

Handwritten: (before) ——— p. 111 fig