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The four-wheeled cart carries a magnificent bull led by a herdsman in order to be sacrificed in the sanctuary; it is followed by a calf and a dog which bites the latter by the tail to make it move forward. The scene is admirably composed and bears witness to the talent of an excellent sculptor.
Many cult carts of this four-wheeled type are known coming from European Bronze Age sites, but not in the Near East. It is probable that their use in Cyprus from the end of the 13th c. and during the 12th is in connection with the introduction onto the island of traditions [handwritten: practices] of cultic European origin. The discovery of the cult cart of the final Late Bronze or early Iron Age at Enkomi has permitted the identification of three other similar bronzes which became, by gift or purchase, many years ago, the property of the Louvre Museum. Their dating and provenance were uncertain; they can now be established with certainty. It is also noted that at the end of the Bronze Age and at the beginning of the Iron Age, Cyprus had become a centre for the manufacture of this type of cult cart, in connection with the bull cult, practised on the island since Neolithic times.
Claude F.A. SCHAEFFER
(1) The collaborators of the French Archaeological Mission during the campaign of excavations of 1969 were M.J.C. Courtois, Mr and Mrs J. Lagarce, M.J.P. Nicolardot, all members of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Mr Bessière, architect D.P.L.G., and Mr Zumstein, archaeologist, curator at the Musée de Strasbourg.
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