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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… which show Mycenean IIIC: 1 patterns: 730 e, part of antithetic spiral and 730f,which may come from a small stirrup /xxxxxx vase, concentric semicircles. The plain pottery includes plain wheel-made II ware (730 -m on Pl. LX, 4).

Floor III continues on similar lines, ie. with decorated LCIII ware (731 b-e on Pl. LX, 1) and rare specimens of the Mycenean IIIC: 1 ware with wavy line (731 f on Pl. LX; 1). The first class includes a fragment of bowl (731 b) which is of the class found earlier (probably very late IIIB) in the fill between floors V and VI. There is in addition the upper part of a small amphora (731 h on Pl. LX) which recalls a similar example (347 on Pl. LII, 5) found on a floor (III) in room III at approximately the same level. The shape of these amphoriskoi is evidently inherited from the Mycenean ones (1) and the ware may be classed under the decorated LCIII class.

In the layer between floors III and II the ceramic strains observed on the two previous floors /are

(1) Their handles are not on the same axis.

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

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