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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 (80. 81). The engraving invariably depicts two scenes: a procession or ritual 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 remarkably homogeneous group of early Iron Age cylinders has probably been made by sealcutters in Cyprus itself depending for their repertory on syro-palestinian (possibly Mitannian) and Egyptian 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 remarkable gold incrusted bronze statuette of the Egyptian God Atoum of Heliopolis represented as statuette of the egyptian God Atoum of Heliopolis represented as a Pharao has been found. Its technique and especially its damascening 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 (28, 83).
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 raising, hunting or warfare from chariots and seafaring (pl. 25 à 26).
The chariot scene represents a man driving his two wheel WHEEL vehicle in the direction of a tall tower which may have stood near the gate way of his hometown or of some [illegible] he is going to
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain