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 69 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.

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… i.e., while the early floors succeed each other closely, floor I is separated from floor II by a thick layer of decomposed pisé or mudbricks, which testifies to the occurrence of a catastrophe at the time of floor II. This section moreover illustrated the relative position of the bronze statue in the deposit and the stratigraphy of the same room in which it was found, the value of which will be discussed below. ( p........)

Section D D (Pl. VI,2). This is parallel to the previous and starts from the well area of the Main Building and runs through room XIII which is actually the part of the large central unit of the building between the pillars. This part is separately numbered because, as will be seen in the description of the architectural remains (infra p........) , the large middle unit was probably divided from the outset and certainly at a later stage ( at the time floor V) into northern and southern sections. The southern section between the two pillars was given the number XIII and the remainder number XIV. Between squares I-M 10 the … continues

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

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