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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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Scan 437 of 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), typed in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Collège de France, Paris, 34 CDF art. 168-1, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

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Continued from p. 215

… rearrangements ie. somewhere in the middle of the twelfth century. This would agree with the LCIII a date, ie. early twelfth century, given to the Enkomi ivories and particularly the mirror-handle on which appears the warrior so similar in style to our statue (1) . The level in which the statue was actually found is the topmost and is dated by characteristic pottery to the end of the LCIII period, ie. early eleventh century B.C. [handwritten: annotation illegible]

(1) Cf. H.Kantor AJA LI, 98 quoting Sjoqvist, Problems, 196.

65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain

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