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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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Scan 237 of document 34 CDF art. 168-1 (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 Schaeffer), typed in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Collège de France, Paris, 34 CDF art. 168-1, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

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as fragments of shallow bowls (710 o on same plate) which appear to be of late Levanto-Mycenean III B shape (1). The fragments of IIIC: 1 bowls, 710 p-t, are important in that they are the latest and give a[handwritten: probably] twelfth century date for the construction of the floor.

The surface of floor IV gives somewhat similar evidence (Pl.XXXI). The Middle Cypriot wares disappear and among other Cypriot wares we notice a few fragments of white slip I and II (257 and 269 on Pl. XXXI, 4) a fragment of monochrome and another of white shaved ware, all of which (except for the monochrome) are recorded in LCIII (2). More numerous are the Mycenean IIIC: 1 fragments: 260 a (Pl.XXXI, 5), 260 b (Pl.XXXI, 3), 263 a (Pl.XXXI, 1), 268 a, b (Pl.XXXI, 4) and 270 a-c (Pl.XXXI, 1, XXXII, 3). 270 a is a typical Mycenean IIIC: 1 shape (cf. Furumark, Analysis Fig. 15, type 295), which has

Handwritten: /also

(1)Cf. Furumark, OA III, 236,

(2)Sjoqvist, Problems, 135.

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

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