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 265 (1949)

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introduced through Syria. The same floor yielded a bronze knife (622 on Pl. XLIII, 2) (1).

Floor II was the surface of a layer of earth of sandy quality resting on floor III and showed no special features, except for two bronze arrow-heads (123 on Pl. XLIII, 3). On this new floor, which must be considered as an intermediary one of short duration, rested a thick layer (0.70 m.) of reddish soil mixed up with spots of white lime. This layer seems to be the result of the collapse of the mudbrick superstructure of the walls (supra p. .....) or at least part of it. I have attributed this collapse to an earthquake, traces of which have been noticed in other parts of the compound and which has been discussed elsewhere in this report (supra p....).

In this layer we found a portion of handle of white slip bowl (743 a on Pl. XLIV, 2) two fragments of decorated LCIII ware (743 b, c, on the same plate) and two portions of rims of Mycenean IIIC: 1 bowls (743 d-e on the same plate). In addition to these /the

(1) For the significance of the deposits of bowls v. infra, p.....

[handwritten: Floor I] (handwritten marginal note, blue ink, near bottom right)

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