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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room into two smaller units, one on the east (room X) and one on the west (room IX). Following this operation a floor was made in each of the new units approximately at the level of floor V of room XIII. This floor is the third floor from the top in these units and is referred to as floor III (1). The two rooms had no direct intercommunication but

Handwritten: a doorway

room IX had/was on the west, where there had been one in the original arrangement, and room X perhaps had one in the north-east corner now destroyed by a looter's pit.

The creation of the room in which the statue was found (at a higher level) and that adjoining it was thus subsequent to the conflagration on floor V (IV in room X) and formed part of the general scheme or reconstruction throughout the whole of the compound. This is confirmed by the material used in / the

(1) In room X the floor on which the conflagration occurred was actually the fourth from the top and is referred to as floor IV, although it corresponds to floor V in other parts of the building.