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 44 (1949)

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marl, which postdates the building itself. In spite of that the introduction of the filling was not long delayed and the rooms were provided with floors (V) which were at the level of the floors in the northern part of the compound where the bedrock was at a higher level.

In room VI the filling was thick and the floor thin but in room III a thinner filling was provided and a thicker floor, but the surface of the floors (V) in both rooms is at the same level.

The whole of this operation is one more proof that the South Building belongs to the same complex as the Main Building and that all the parts of the latter formed part of the same undertaking.

In room III, following floor V and the reatrenchment, the floors succeed each other, rather closely until floor II, on which occurs a layer of ashes in the eastern portion of the room. Between floor II and I we have a thick mixed layer of ashes, debris and mudbricks, the result of some catastrophe. We shall observe the same destruction layer between

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