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… of Alasia standing on a copper ingot in the form of an animal hide typical for the mines of typical characteristic of the mines of the island Cyprus and that the maritime trade of the Cypriots, of the Cretans and the Phoen. a spread in the among riparian countries of the eastern Medit. ent the XIVe and in pharaonic Egypt ent the XIVe and at the end of the Age of Br. and at the beginning of the Iron ent the (ent of XVe and , of XVe to to XIe c. BC AD).
The god of Alasia whose statue has just come to light in the excavations of Cyprus thus presents itself as much as a god the protect. of the prod. of copper, wealth of the island, as much as of as its god of war warrior armed and helmeted.
, written sideways: the dawn of Greek civilisation.By its discovery at the level of a sanctuary of the beginning of the Iron Age before this discovery the statue of god of a of Alasia standing on an ingot of copper brings will shed light on a day new this the period still so obscure after the disappearance of the civ. of Br. and before the reign of Great of Cyprus el before
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain