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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The surface of floor V yielded only a few fragments of monochrome, base-ring and red slip wheelmade wares (709 on Pl. XXX, 4). Of these only the base-ring is recorded in ICIII, but the occurrence of [handwritten: the sporadic incidence of] the other wares is symptomatic of sherds of wares recorded in earlier stages of the late Cypriot period.

If the sherds found in the material used for floor V and those found up on it were unsatisfactorily few, floor IV which immediately followed it yielded ample evidence. First of all a considerable number of sherds (710 on Pl. XXX, 1-3) has been found in the material used for the floor. [handwritten: (IV)] These include a few Middle Cypriot wares (white painted, red on black), a number of Late Cypriot wares (monochrome, white shaved, base-ring, white slip etc.) including a fragment of bichrome Milia ware 710 [handwritten: ℓ] (Pl.XXX, 2 cf. QDPA VIII, 21 ff and Schaeffer, Missions, 49 ff), two fragments of Levanto-Mycenean wares (710 m, n on Pl. XXX, 3), but at the same time a considerable quantity of Mycenean IIIC: 1. Of the latter various sherds have been found (710 p-t on Pl.XXX, 3) as well /as

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