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, scan 243 (1949)

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(red on black and white painted 760 a-b Pl.XXXV, 2) illustrating the kind of intrusion to which reference has already been made.

Floor I, the last, on which several skulls of oxen were found produced the unique engraved jug 89 (Pl. XXXVI, 1). Its shape seems to be a survival from earlier times and recalls in particular the jugs of painted wheel-made ware (Sjoqvist, Problems, Fig. 17) and plain wheel made II ware (ibid., type 3). The same floor yielded an iron knife with bronze rivets (7 on Pl.XXXVI, 5) (1) a portion of gold sheet (30 on Pl.XXXVI, 5) and a fragmentary incence-burner (91 on Pl.XXXVI, b).

In conclusion room XIII shows three distinct stages in the ceramic evolution. The first (floors V-IV) is characterised by the occurrence of Mycenean IIIC: 1 wares with ornamentation in the "close style" and other styles of the Granary class. During the second stage (II-IV) we observe together with Mycenean IIIC:1 wares the beginning and rapid ascendancy of the decorated LCIII ware. Lastly, /in the

(1) Cf. Schaeffer, Stratigraphie Comparée p.393.

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