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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seal; it shows a bucranium with a disc between the horns.

The layer between floors III and IV shows two fragments of base-ring II ware (717 f on Pl. L, 2), two fragments of bucchero wheel-made ware (717 g on Pl. L, 2) and twelve fragments of decorated LCIII ware (717 b Pl. L, 1), among them a fragment of strainer spout which seems to copy a Mycenean IIIC: 1 prototype such as the strainger jug found in room XIV (Pl. XXV, 1, 2). Other pottery includes Mycenean IIIC: 1 fragments (717 a and e on Pl. L, 1). Similar pottery was found in a separately excavated section comprising the layers between floor V and III (715 on Pl. L, 3). Here we observe a Mycenean IIIC: 1 fragment with wavy lines (715 c on Pl. L, 3), which probably comes from the layer between floors IV and III although a fragment of similar style was found elsewhere between floors V and IV (714 e on Pl. L, 6).

Floor III (Pl. XIII, 5) produced similar pottery but with an increasing proportion of wavy line bowls (348 and 348 a on Pl. LI, 1), also three fragmentary /Syro- … continues

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

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