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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down to the depth so far investigated. At certain points where previously dug pits (1) were cleared the deeper layers are also shown as they were visible on the sides of the pits down the bedrock.

Section AA (Pl. V,1). This runs alsmost eastwest through the front rooms of the South Building i.e. rooms VI, III, II but includes on the east room XIIA and on he west room I. As the investigation in these two end rooms is still incomplete only the central part of the section, that which concerns the South Building is illustrative. As already mentioned in the brief architectural description we have here three rooms arranged in the tripartite method , namely a large central room (III) and two side ones of smaller a size (II and VI). In square K- ∧ 22 we see the west w wall of the South Building while the line of square Z 22 coincides with its east wall . Both these walls rest on the bedrock. In square I-K 22 between levels

(1). I.e. pits dug by excavators or villagers in search of tombs

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

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