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that the seated god / of bronze<s> found in/ of the Iron Age times at / Enkomi-Alasia several examples / of which three statuettes / have so far been removed / from the levels of the ruins / surviving of the installa- / tions houses and / sanctuaries surviving / and uncovered in the / the upper and / the most recent levels of this site.and distant between the coast / coast of / and the island / of Ch.placed at the top the father of the gods, (at the head of the Canaanite pantheon at Ras Shamra - Ugarit<s>/ in Northern Syria, in the capital North, only ... km from Enkomi - on the<s>/ Alasia on the Syrian coast opposite Enkomi - Alasia situated maritime Ugarit (only km from the capital of Alasia Enkomi - Alasia also a port, opposite Enkomi - Alasia on the coast Syrian was generally is depicted at Ugarit under the features same features, in the same attitude seated, bearing the same emblems, making the same gesture of welcome or blessing and wearing the same same garment, a tunic covering from the shoulders to the bottom of the legs. Let us not forget let us not forget that between the two maritime cities situated facing one to of the other on the and Syro-Cypriot of the Syrian sea and and the fact that they are<s>/ distant from one another R.S. - Ugarit and En. Al. only ... km or .. nautical miles, there was, as the archaeological material from our excavations and the very numerous texts of the archives and official and and Hittite documents private libraries of Ugarit attest, of very fre- of very frequent relations exchanges cultural, economic, as well as of relations and also political and administrative , to such an extent that Alasia in Thus in the 14th and 13th c.e it was at<s> it was at Alasia at the court of the king of Ch/ Cyprus had become had become even in the island of Alasia its capital of the same name<s> (2)/ [illegible] and that the king of Ugarit sent his sons into forced residence, if they when they practised a meddled in prematurely in the politics, or hindered the decisions relating to the succession planned taken at (2) Citation of the fact that A. is sometimes with the det. town and sometimes country) throne the court.
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