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In some cases, with these seals is associated a special type of engraved cylinder also of steatite, five of which, newly found at Enkomi in stratigraphically known conditions are published here (20, 21). The engraving invariably depicts two sceries: a procession or ritial dance of bearded men wearing a tall egg shaped headdress, or a hunter dressed like a Pharao of the late kingdom shooting an arrow towards a wild bull. This remarquably homogenous groupe of early Iron Age cylinders has probably been made by sealcutters in Cyprus itself depanding for their repertory on syro-palestinian (possibly mitannien) and egyptian glyptic art.
Among the remains of a dwelling belonging to the second floor level (end of XIIth c. B.C.) at Enkomi, which has probably been destroyed during an earthquake, a remarquable gold incrusted bronze statuette of the egyptian God Atoum of Heliopolis represented a Pharao has been found. Its technique and especially its damascen inlaying points to Syrian manufacture. The find illustrated the strong influence which egyptian art probably through the intermediary of Syria exerted on the early Iron Age milieu of Enkomi ( 22, 23).
Not far from the statuette was found in the same XIIth c. level a bloc of dressed limestone the smooth surfaces of which have tempted on XIIth c. draftsman of Enkomi to engrave a series of graffitos illustrative of his main interests: cattle rising, hunting or warefare from chariots and seafaring ( 24 à 26).
The chariot scene represents a man driving his two wheel whiĉh vehicle in the direction of a tall tower which may have stood near the gate way of his hometown or of some he is going to
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