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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I. INTRODUCTION.

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 the Director of the Department Mr. A.H.S. Megaw ( p......). and by Dr. Cl. F. 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 "stelliere" 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

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