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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some Levanto-Mycenean vessels continued to be in use in the twelfth century cannot be excluded.

The next floor (IV), which is at level 12.49, was that which followed the conflagration and the subsequent clearance and repair of the building with

Handwritten: Building on floor IV

minor alterations of plan. The most characteristic of the pottery on this floor is the lower part of an open bowl (707 (Pl.XXVII, 3) of the ware called by

Handwritten: +Schaeffer

Sjoqvist/ Sub-Mycenean, (1) by Gjerstad debased Levanto- Helladic (2) and by Furumark (3) decorated LCIII ware. I have used in my descriptions Furumark's term, which though somewhat general can give rise to no misunderstandings. The type of bowl represented by 707 is a late survival of similar late Levanto-Mycenean IIIB type and we shall see that it continued in use

Handwritten: the

in the upper layers of our building together with other forms of vessel in the same ware. It also occurs in tomb 6 of the first French excavations at /Engomi

(1)Problems, Fig.18. – [handwritten: Ref. to Schaeffer]

(2)OA III, 74.

(3)Ibid., 235, Fig.10.

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

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