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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Cypriot town at Enkomi (ie. 1700) and the beginning of the LCI town. We could then have here below room X remnants of the latter town.

The layer between floor V and IV, the earliest associated with our building, shows a strong proportion of monochrome ware, some base-ring fragments and numerous fragments of white slip II bowls (768 on Pl. XXXVIII). This marks a further stage evidently in the LCIIA (1).

[handwritten: ?] Floor IV (Pl.XXII, 9), the first associated with our Main Building (2) shows similar evidence as far as the Cypriot wares are concerned (735-736 on Pl. XXXIX, 1-3), but at the same time it yielded a fragmentary bowl of late Levanto-Helladic ware (653 on Pl.XXXIX, 1). This floor IV has no proper surface and would hot have been taken as a floor were it not for the fact that we found in its western part an area covered with stones, on which was a fragmentary deep bowl (654 a on Pl.XLV, 2), and a pit containing several fragments of pottery, two fragmentary querns and a stone pounder (735 j on Pl. XXXIX, 1). It is slightly lower than floor V / (the

(1) Cf. Sjoqvist, Problems, p.124. (2) This floor antedates the construction of the partition between rooms X and IX, which areaat this is/ stage/regarded as a single unit room X + IX. The pottery from floor IV in both parts of it has been considered as a single group.

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