Document·34 CDF art. 168-1·1949

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 SchaefferPorphyrios Dikaios and Claude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer

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Scan 328 of 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), typed in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Collège de France, Paris, 34 CDF art. 168-1, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

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Aegean (4) but also in Cyprus, notably at Enkomi where known type which occurs both in the East and in the The form of this statuette belongs to a well ette. The same details are found on both faces of the statuthe division of the legs from which the feet project. by an engraved angular line. A vertical line indicates The navel is rendred by a round hole and the genitalia the hair in two locks, which end above the breasts. is pointed, the eyes are rendered with round disks, body is plank-shaped and of crude technique. The face bent and hands supporting or touching the breasts. The fashion, and represents a naked female deity with arms The statuette is double-faced, in "Hermes" floor III elsewhere in the building. room had/[handwritten: no] post-earthquake floor, is contemporary with floor II which, taking into consideration that this in which the horned god was found. It was found on found in room XI which adjoins ( on the east) room X,[handwritten: illegible]

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

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