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 various forms and show that this shape, which was [handwritten: recognised?] transmitted into the Iron Age, was well established. [handwritten: so even for] Another hemispherical shape, the deep bowl with horizontal [handwritten: pottery which seem] loop handle is also represented by a remarkable example [handwritten: ] (Pl. XVIII, 2), which is of a ware similar to the [handwritten: ] decorated LH IIIC ware. The ornament reflects [handwritten: ] Mycenean IIIC: 1 style and it is not certain that its [handwritten: ] shape is derived from the Levanto-Helladic repertory [handwritten: Rehaery?] direct. The ring with side stirrer about (OA III, Fig. [handwritten: ] 10, 16) is represented by several fragmentary examples [handwritten: ] and its derivation from Philistine prototype is con- [handwritten: ] firmed through our discovery of such a prototype in [handwritten: ] the Mycenean IIIC: 1 tuglet under the hearth of room [handwritten: ] XIV (Fig. 4 and Pl. XXV, 1,2). [handwritten: ]

The material of the third or topmost ceramic stage includes extremely important evidence for the solution of the problem of the birth of the proto-white painted and Ovpro-geometric styles. At this stage we observe [handwritten: also even] a reappearance of new pottery types, mostly small semiglobular deep bowls, amphorae and tugs with wavy lines [handwritten: ] of Mycenean IIIC: 1 and 2 styles. It is permissible [handwritten: parallels to Ajk] to see in this influx evidence of the arrival of a strong

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

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