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

wooden pedestal on which the statue must have stood, as the fixing pins under the heels show (Pl.LXXIII). In fact it would be difficult to explain otherwise the presence of these stones and the semicircular space they enclose. It may be objected that this rough and ready manner of fixing the bronze statue is too improvised compared with the fine quality of the statue. But the whole work of the reconstruction following the fire including the building of the partition walls out of odds and ends is improvised and careless work compared with the fine quality of the original building.

It would follow that the statue remained in the same position at the time of floor II which actually is no more than a slight raising of the previous floor III. An objection to this suggestion that the statue was worshipped earlier than the time of floor I on which it was found ie. on floors II and III, is that at the time of the earthquake or other disaster which caused the mudbrick superstructure to collapse / on … continues