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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completely excavated but uncovered portions of walls show that other annexes extended in that direction. It is thus clear that the plan of the building consists of a central tripartite block, with two subsidiary blocks, also tripartite, abutting on its north and south ( narrow) sides, and two series of rooms arranged along its east and west (long) sides.

III. STRATIFICATION

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Stratification has been closely studied during the excavation of the various parts of this large compound and sections have been drawn through many parts of it mainly in an east-west direction, in order to illustrate the accumulation and the relationship of the floors and of intermediary layers to the various walls (1). But for the purpose of this report we shall describe only five of the most representative sections namely AA, BB, CC, DD and XX. Although incomplete, these sections fairly represent the deposit.

(1). The pottery found in the successive strata shown on the sections is separately discussed ( infra p..

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

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