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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pottery found on floor VI is contemporary and we -II therefore may date the deposit to the LCI/i.e. end of the fifteenth or beginning of the fourteenth century B.C. That the surface of the deposit in question, which I called floor VI, was used as a floor for a short period is corroborated by the fact that in room VIII, also in the South Building,

Handwritten: some light of floor in this room was proof of much use

we find at the same level, i.e. 13.18, a good floor which is without any doubt subsequent to the erection of the building. This is proved by the fact that [handwritten: here is even more evidence for this contemporary with ceiling [illegible] floor] this floor touches part of the lower rubble foundation of the walls, as well as the lower part (of dressed masonry) of wall 11 of the Main Building against which room VIII was built. However the intention of the builders from the outset [handwritten: was]to

Handwritten: have been to

raise the internal floor level of the South Building to that of the earliest floors of the Main Building, i.e. approximately 12.70, and this is proved by the

Handwritten: corroborated

fact that the thresholds of the various rooms are 0,60 m. (on an average) above the level of floor VI

Handwritten: this

in room III. Indeed/raising of the floor level was carried out soon after by the addition of a thick /layer … continues