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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of the front row of rooms; that the later floors succeeded each other normally with the exception of a floor I which is separated from its predecessor by a thick layer of debris indicating a catastrophe. Section BB ( Pl. V,2) is parallel to the preceding: it includes room XII and passes through the second inner group of rooms in the South Building i.e. room VI A (which was originally a distinct room but was later incorporated with room VI, rooms VII and VIII and through the area west of the latter room. The layer overlying floor II in room XII containing burnt matter which must be connected with the catastrophe noticed on the previous section. It will be noticed that the floor of room XII on which the catastrophe occurred is given number II although it is the first encountered. The reason for this is that floor I, which is seen in other parts of the building and postdated the catastrophe, does not occur here. I considered it would be preferable to give all the floors on which the catastrophe is noticeable, the same number II even if floor I does not occur above it. The absence of floor