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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site of the classical city when the inhabitants moved there in the early eleventh century, on their abandonment of the Enkomi site.

However the alternative that a new town was founded by Tevcer on the site of classical Salamis and that the town at Enkomi continued to flourish having been occupied by the newcomers is not to be rejected pending excavation at Salamis. But, judging from the important character of the twelfth century remains at Enkomi, we are entitled to infer that it is unlikely that a second important town coexisted with it at such a short distance.

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

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