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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… which was built following the collapse and consequentappearing in squares K-[handwritten: Λ]. It is a circular platform layer of decomposed pisé. The group of stones similar evidence. Here too on floor II rests a thick The deposit in the area west of room IX shows one more the destruction suffered by the building at the time of floor II.

parts of the building, occurs also here and testifies room X and in other rooms and will be observed in other decomposed pisé and mudbricks which we have noticed in any case important to note that the same thick layer of the bronze statue in the adjoining room X. It is in at this level must represent offerings connected with was no floor I properly speaking, but the animals bones were found deeper than the surface of this layer. There on of the room (infra.........) other bones of animals vases were found but as will be seen from the descriptistatues and animals bones mixed up with fragments of represent the post-destruction level in the room, stag's colour. On the surface of this layer, which must layer of decomposed pisé and mudbricks of dark red

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

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