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 301 (1949)

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of similar type and ware occur in the main chamber [handwritten: at Enkomi] of the Swedish Expedition's tomb 18/ especially in the later group,(1) which is attributed to the end of the LCII period, (2) ie. end of the thirteenth century B.C. In the part of the same fill found in room III the latest sherds were Mycenean IIIC: 1, which dates the introduction of the fill to some time in the twelfth century. Nothing was found in the present room to invalidate that dating. The fact that the fill contained more Middle Cypriot sherds than floor VI and the deposit under it suggests that sherds from earlier deposits, perhaps from tombs, were collected with the filling material, a phenomenon which we have observed in other cases.

Floor V, which is the first actual floor of the building, is of good quality. It is on this floor that rearrangements altering the plan of the front row /of

Handwritten: but we are in room IV

Handwritten: (in 155?)

Handwritten: they are where they are reported

Handwritten: on this could be checked for the Mycenean

Handwritten: less ag struggle and ... earlier

(1) cf. SCE I, Pl. LXXXVIII, 1.

(2) Sjoqvist, Reports on Excavations in Cyprus, 219 ff. Schaeffer calls the period between 1350 and 1200 Chypriote Recent III; cf. Stratigraphie, 382, 403.

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