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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extended into room IX for they then formed a single unit. It has no surface and is 45 cms. Lower than the earliest floor (V) of room XIII; it yielded together with other fragments of pottery a fragmentary late Mycenean IIIB or IIIC bowl (653 on Pl. XXXIX, 1). These followed the conflagration and the resultant rearrangements of the building. A fill containing IIC potttery but also some Mycenean IIIC: 1 fragments, a scarab of Thutmosis III and a Philistine seal, was introduced by the rearrangements which included the isolation of room X by partitions. The new floor (III) in the deposits of bowls and Mycenean IIIC: 1 fragments provided evidence which agrees with that from the rooms already examined. This provides a terminus post quem for the subsequent catastrophe on floor II and for the bronze statue in floor I, which must be placed at the end of the IIIT period

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The ceramic evidence from room X falls into the same three stages which have already been distinguished. The earliest stage represented by floor IV (contemporary of floor V in other rooms) which produced the fragmentary bowl of late Levanto-Mycenaean ware (652 on Pl.XXXIX.1). The superimposition of the fill which contained earliest pottery confuses … continues