Document 34 CDF art. 168-1, Contribution to Enkomi I, Text, Preliminary Report on the Cyprus Department of Antiquities excavations at Enkomi, The Bronze Statue of a Horned God, annotated and commented by Schaeffer, p. 162 (1949)

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found in room XI which adjoins ( on the east) room X,

Handwritten: hidden under?

in which the horned god was found. It was found on

Handwritten: carying?

floor II which, taking into consideration that this

Handwritten: no

room had/post-earthquake floor, is contemporary with floor III elsewhere in the building.

The statuette is double-faced, in "Hermes" fashion, and represents a naked female deity with arms bent and hands supporting or touching the breasts. The body is plank-shaped and of crude technique. The face is pointed, the eyes are rendered with round disks, the hair in two locks, which end above the breasts. The navel is rendred by a round hole and the genitalia by an engraved angular line. Avertical line indicates the division of the legs from which the feet project. The same details are found on both faces of the statuette.

The form of this statuette belongs to a well known type which occurs both in the East and in the Aegean (1) but also in Cyprus, notably at Enkomi where

(1) P. Demargne, La Crète Dédalique, 268 ff

65 figures hard to read~~struck~~ struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain