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… of the final period of the City (beginning of Iron Age, XIe-Xe s. BC) In the courtyard central of this place of worship, on a platform along of the walls in which were sacrificed deposits of ] and put d deposits of bulls, sheep etc. were deposited in the middle. on the skulls of horns of numerous various pottery of various bulls and of deer and pottery, some of which painted, other animals having been which served sacrificed to the deity. A statue of the deity intact and d in bronze, equipped with a of 35 cm was found in carefully hidden under the floor of a receptacle arranged in the north-east corner of the sanctuary. She The god is standing wears and is wearing is wearing a wear a conical helmet from the edge of which emerges a pair of horns of a bull. He is armed with a spear, por He is armed. He a spear He holds in his right a spear, the iron point forward and protects himself by with the aid of a conical relatively small shield (advanced from of the hand right left. He He is dressed in a doublet and a loincloth well av embroidered and wears on the legs of greaves gaiters, of or greaves, which constitutes the pl anc representation of this arm whose invention has been attributed to the which constitutes the most p anc representation of this anc represent of detail this of armour of antiquity. One recalls qu that Homer in the Iliad attributes the invention of this arm to the Cypriots. armour see p 6 (back) Cypriot greaves to the arm Cypriot. The p of arm of god
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain