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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This group of early twelfth century pottery is therefore extremely valuable as an indication of the date of the main tripartite building, the erection of which can hardly be placed earlier than 1200 B.C. We shall see that this date is confirmed by evidence collected elsewhere.

The same floor (V) has yielded other fragmentary pottery of the same date (Pl. XXVI): fragment 226 a, of vase decorated in the "close style" (Pl. XXVI, 4) similar to 758 c already mentioned, another fragment 704 a (Pl. XXVI, 4) which belongs to a Mycenean IIIC: 1 shape, and lastly the fragmentary bowl 676 (Pl. XXVI, 2), which is also of the same type. Apart from these twelfth century fragments we found on the hearth of the same floor fragments of a Levanto-Mycenean crateramphora (677 on Pl. XXVI, 5), which although of earlier date overlay the twelfth century pottery in the hearth foundation and are thus of no chronological value. This is a typical example of the intrusion of earlier pottery into the twelfth century layers of our building. While such intrusions are in most cases the result of the conditions already explained, the possibility that /some

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