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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… and other bones of animals (Pl.XVI.1). In both cases there was no floor proper and the offerings were placed on the surface of the ground which was levelled after the earthquake, possibly without any reconstruction of the walls and roof which had enclosed these rooms. This is a proof of the impoverished conditions which followed the earthquake.

It is significant that at the final abandonment of the town the statue was left behind. On some of the floors of the eastern part of the compound which was re-inhabited after the earthquake we found in situ all the household objects as if the inhabitants had left in a hurry. Did another disaster, like that which occurred on floor II, finally overwhelm the town causing the remaining inhabitants to flee leaving all their household belongings behind, even the statue of their god?

Immediately below the cultivated soil we found in several parts of the excavated area large patches of ashes, in one case containing the bottom of a / large