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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… the construction of the partition walls: mostly rubble or boulders with mudbrick and in the case of the partition between the two rooms of two dressed blocks evidently taken from some demolished wall, and of boulders.

With the creation of these two rooms in a part of the Main Building where we found traces of previous domestic use came a change in function to judge by what has been found on their new floors. Thus on the new floor III in room X we found three impressive deposits of wheel-made base-ring bowls, numbering 275 in all (Pl.XIX, XX), an alabaster vase, a few bronze objects as well as animal bones. Floor II, which was an intermediary and short-lived one, yielded little, but on the following floor, in a pit cut in the intervening destruction layer stood the bronze statue. In the adjoining room IX we found on floors III and II animal bones, miniature horns of gold sheet, other gold ornaments, while at the level corresponding with floor I were skulls of oxen, stage … continues

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