Extract: Archaeology in Cyprus, 1950

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ARCHAEOLOGY IN CYPRUS, 1950. ------------------

Further campaigns by both Schaeffer and Dikaios carried forward the joint excavation of the late Bronze Age town site at Enkomi. The grid plan of the street system is beginning to take shape and a new section of the town wall has been laid bare. But both excavators in their 1950 campaigns were mainly occupied with the further investigation of the two impressive buildings, mainly of ashlar construction, previously discovered. Schaeffer recovered evidence of re-use, after a fire, evidently in the twelfth century, and of this period found two seated bronze statuettes, one of them on a throne. In the building excavated by Dikaios (JHS LXX) [handwritten: ?] the pottery was mainly of the same period extending into the early eleventh century (including Mycenean IIIC and decorated LCIII). However the structural remains on the site go back to the LCI period and under the street outside the building was found an intact tomb with good Mycenean pottery of the fourteenth and thirteenth centuries, including the interesting amphora illustrated on Fig. ......