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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… evidence that the statue was the centre of the cult

in the same area at an earlier date. This cult

began at the time of floor III, the floor on which [handwritten: Wall XIV] the bowl deposits were found in the same room where

the statue had its last resting place. This floor

is the first one after the re-arrangements carried

out to the building, consequent upon the conflagra-

tion. Below floor III, in the fill which was placed

to raise the level of rooms IX-X we found pottery

which suggests that the fill was taken from some

earlier deposit (probably a destroyed tomb) but also

Mycenaean IIIC:1 pottery. It also contained a scarab

of Thutmosis III which agrees with the date of the

earlier pottery, as well as the Philistine seal which

together with the Mycenaean IIIC:1 pottery give the

date at which the fill was introduced into the room

ie. 12th cent. If, as suggested, the statue was

previously worshipped on floor III then it too should

to be dated the middle stage of the

compound ie. that which followed immediately the re-

/arrangements … continues