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at present. Put under shelter during the stop of 8 ½ - 9. - Go to Fam. by car, informally. Karageorgh. about « the find of a bronze » and agree on the use of Polyvenyl as a provisional consolidant. Invite him to come: tomorrow morning. — Return following the clearing of the statuette, numerous photos in situ and film. While clearing I notice that the left hand is advanced holding a shield, in the right a spear, point downward. This one breaks in the earth, but all the fragments preserved. Lower down the god (wearing standing loincloth, places his feet sommairement indicated on a small replica of an ingot (drawing) in copper of the type Cypriot. This detail is very important: the god is thus the protector of the produc of copper, the island's wealth, and no doubt also of the miners and metallurgists. He also must be a warrior god as it must be deducted from the weapons he
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain