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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… on Pl. LVII, 3) as well as two fragments of painted bowls similar to 726, 1, m on Pl. LV found in the fill underneath the floor. All this pottery although [handwritten: not found on, not contact, no] not found actually on floor V is in immediate contact with it and as this floor is the first actual one of the building, the pottery in question belongs to the period immediately after the conflagration and the alterations which followed it.) [handwritten: built prior to the time of building before carbon] [handwritten: [illegible]] The main feature on the next floor (IV) which was the first following the rearrangements is the decorated LCIII ware (447 b, 451 a-e, 455a on Pl. LVIII) [handwritten: with] but/it was a fragmentary deep bowl with remarkably painted ornamentation (447 a on Pl. LVIII, 2). Its shape is inherited from similar Mycenean bowls while the ornamentation has counterparts in the Mycenean IIIC: 1 repertory of patterns. It is however of local workmanship and is important for the study of the development of Cypriot pottery in the LCIII period and the transition to the Early Iron Age. The same floor yielded the upper part of a plain wheel-made III jug (448 on Pl. LVIII, 3) and other plain pottery as well as stone querns and grinders (Pl. LVIII, 4).

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

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