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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The following report is a preliminary account of the excavations which I carried out on behalf of the Department of Antiquities at the site of Enkomi for the joint Expedition the formation of which has already been described by [handwritten: early] the Director of the Department Mr. A.H.S. Megaw ( p......) [handwritten: and by] and by Dr. Cl. Schaeffer ( p......). The results described here are the outcome of two campaigns the first during the winter 1948-9 and the second in the spring 1949, but the clearing of the remains uncovered is still incomplete. The area chosen for the Department's operations lies in plots 265 and 330 ( see plan.......) between Dr. Schaeffer's north trench and the trench of the " ateliers" which since has been further investigated by the French Mission in 1949 and has yielded important architectural remains. At the beginning of the work we drove a trench through the area with an almost east-west direction, 2 metres in width and 76 metres in length in order to test