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, scan 397 (1949)

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observed on floor I, ie. the topmost in room XIII, immediately north of rooms X and IX. This floor the rested on/thick destruction layer which we assumed resulted from an earthquake which caused the collapse of the superstructure at the time of floor II. Skulls of stags, an ox's skull and other bones were also found in room IX at the post-destruction level. No animal skulls were found in the area west of room IX at this level and it would appear that following the destruction the place of sacrificial offerings was transfered from this area to room IX and the area north of it which had formed part of room XIII.

Now it was at this same, post-destruction level that we found in the south-east corner of the room the pit containing the bronze statue of the horned god (Fig. 5)^(1). We are led to conclude that the animal skulls found at the corresponding level in / rooms

(1) The lower part of this pit split in two; in the one branch stood the feet of the statue, in the other we only found an animal's jaw.

An interesting parallel for the placing of the … continues

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