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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The northern part of the earliest floor (V), which is composed of lime marl, rests on the bedrock (4). Southward the floor extends as far as the lime of pillar (16, on Plate I) where it discontinues. The connection of the floor with rooms IX and X, i.e. the south part of the central room of the Main Building beyond the pillar is discussed below (p. ...).

A trial dig in the original floor (V) brought to light among the material composing it two fragments of white slip II ware, a fragment of red on black ware and a small fragment of base-ring bowl (cf. 741 on Pl. XXX, 5) all in the material used for the floor. With the exception of the red on black fragment, these [handwritten: occur in] [illegible] the LCIII period (2). [handwritten: IIII]

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(1) There is a tomb-chamber cut in the rock under the northern part of this floor.

(2) cf. Stoyvlat, Problema, 135. The red on black ware is not recorded in LCIII but in the area at Enkomi here described it seems to be represented (though only by stray sherds) through the whole of the deposit even to the topmost floor.