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 59 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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taken to be the bedrock itself. [illegible]

At the time of floor IV the two rooms X and IX formed one unit which is the southward projection of the central room (XIII) of the Main Building. Following floor IV a screen wall was erected abutting on one side on the south wall of the room and on the other on the southernmost pillar of the central room. We shall see that the erection of this screen wall coincides with other major rearrangements in the Main Building, including the building of two screen walls on either side of the southernmost pillar (16 on Pl. I,III) which isolated the projection occupied by rooms IX and X from the rest.

The erection of the screen wall between rooms IX and X coincides with the raising of the internal level by adding a filling on which the new floor (III) was made in both rooms. It was in this filling, which antedates floor III, that the Egyptian scarab of Thutmosis III (182) and the stone seal representing a [handwritten: vertical bracket in left margin] … continues

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

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