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 decorated LCIII ware are approximately the same as in room XIV, where it is most frequent during the second stage (floors IV-II).

Floor II yielded a Syro-Palestinian amphora (139 on Pl.XXXIV, 3) a second fragmentary one (140 a on Pl.XXXIV, 2) and other fragments of plain vessels including 140 b (Pl.XXXIV, 2) which is from a form of plain amphora derived from old Mycenean prototypes.

The destruction of layer between floor I and II shows a different picture. The overwhelming majority of the sherds are of the Mycenean IIIC: 1-2 pottery with wavy lines (760 -m on Pl. XXXV, 1,2). The decorated LCIII ware is still represented by a few fragments including an almost complete bowl (92 m. on Pl. XXXVI, 2), but the wavy line style of the Mycenean IIIC 1-2 pottery predominates. In this lot we include the stem of a kylix (760 k Pl.XXXV, 2) and the lower part of a conical bowl (760 j Pl.XXXV, 1) of unusual type. Another ware represented is the white slip II (one fragment 760 c Pl.XXXV, 2) and there are two fragments of Middle Cypriot wares / (red

Handwritten: marginal annotations in blue ink, partly illegible, including "Pl. XXXV"-type notes and "Floor II" notes; not reliably readable

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

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