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the seated Mycenaean godseated from Enkomi - Alasia(p ),These We there have noted (p....), that three other divine statuettes have been lost at Enkomi - Alasia during the same period at the beginning of Iron I. They respectively depict a Baal Syrian wearing the high royal Egyptian headdress or pschent Egyptian (p. ...), the Heliopolitan god Atum in the guise of a pharaoh wearing the double crown of Egyp of the upper and lower Egypt (p...), finally a seated god whose seat has not been found, dressed in a long tunic holding a local cup with identifiable foot with the deity These three divine effigies rested all on floor II or in the layer of debris that covers it. When one takes into account du what value the ancient populations attached to the preservation and la safety of the effigies statues of their deities gods, the loss or abandonment in their hiding places of six statues or statuettes divine the, a number which has certainly been surely much higher (in reality our excavations have so far examined p only about . . . . of the surface total of the ancient city) du site is permits bear witness to the gravity of the events that occurred during
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain