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

·

Typed in English. Every line is transcribed, and the text sits beside the scan.

Scan 355 of 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), typed in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Collège de France, Paris, 34 CDF art. 168-1, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

Unnumbered pageScan 355 of 438

176

The lowest deposit, which antedates the building contains earlier pottery but the fill which covered it and underlay the first real floor of the building contains Mycenean IIIC: 1 pottery. [handwritten: not true, p.142 ch. and p.175]

The pottery found on the various floors [handwritten: (Clearly)] includes Myceneah IIIC: 1 wares (1) which reflect "Granary" styles and Cypriot wares such as were in use in the LCII period but in proportions which conform with their known occurrence in LCIII (2). The main new evidence of the Enkomi pottery is the appearance of the Mycenean IIIC: 1 wares, which apart from the Curium amphora (3) and Sinda (4) were unknown in Cyprus [handwritten: not very many] before. [handwritten: not have found at Enk. by ... before] This is a contribution of major importance since previously it was thought that the "extensive international connections" of LCII came to an abrupt end at about 1200 B.C. (5). The discovery of these [handwritten: /late]

(1) Apart from the examples of Mycenean IIIC: 1 pottery from the floors of the rooms selected for detailed study in this report I have included important fragments from other rooms (Pl. LXVIII-LXIX).

(2) Sjoqvist, Problems, 135; Schaeffer, Stratigraphie 392 ff.

(3) AJA XLI Fig.5.

(4) AJA LII, 531.

(5) Cf. Gjerstad, OA III, 87.

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

Spotted a wrong reading? Write to us or use alexis@ancientcyprus.com