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 46 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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… took place altering the previous tripartite arrangement

which was made on the filling, thorough rearrangements

soon a thick layer of calcareous rubble and marl was

added to bring the floors to the same level as those in

the other parts of the compound; that following floor V

the South Building rests on the bedrock, that following its

erection the pre-existing deposit was levelled and that

It is therefore clear from this section that the

was smaller.

of debris however is smaller, perhaps because the room

ashes resting on the corresponding floor. The thickness

floor II in room III is witnessed here by the layer of

the adjoining room. The catastrophe which occurred on

rearrangement only three floors occur instead of four in

(II) is similar, with the difference that following the

The succession of the floors in the small room

time of the use of floor II.

on the nature of the catastrophe which occurred at the

one of an architectural character, which throw light

and shall consider it in relation to certain observati-

floors II and I in other sections of the compound … continues

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