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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ly represents the topmost floor level. This platform, lies at a small distance to the north of the section line but has been marked on the section in order to complete the picture of this part of the building. A second similar platform belonging to the same level was uncovered at a small distance to the east on top of a collapsed doorjamb (Pl. XIV,8 and infra p.......). The foundation of the west wall of room IX, which extends down to a considerable depth, was brought to light in the clearance of a pit dug by tomb searchers at its side, a little further south than the section line. The great depth of rubble foundation must be due to the existence here of some depression in the original bedrock, the nature of which remains to be examined.

At the other end of the section in room XI we notice on the floor II a mixed layer of debris due to the collapse of the superstructure of the walls. The post-destruction floor I does not occur here.

This section consequently confirms the general ral observations drawn from the previous sections:

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

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