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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Scan 274 of 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), typed in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Collège de France, Paris, 34 CDF art. 168-1, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

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the picture, but as also contained Mycenean IIIC: 1 pottery and the Philistine seal, the FIII cannot have been added earlier than the 12th century B.C. Floor FIII with the deposits of bowls represents the middle stage, which followed the rearrangements, and produced, apart from the wheel-made base-ring bowls, fragments of Mycenean IIIC: 1 pottery with antithetic spiral in the "close style" and with the wavy lines which become the predominant feature of the third and last stage. The pottery between floor II and I is too scanty to illustrate the last stage effectively, but the few fragments of Mycenean IIIC: 1 bowls are indicative. We shall see that this third stage is better illustrated in the adjoining room IX.

Room IX. (Pl.XIV-XVIII).

This room originally formed one unit with room X but at the time of the rearrangements which took place following the conflagration on the first floor of the building, these two rooms were screened off from each other as well as from the rest of the building by partition walls. This happened before /floor

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

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