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, scan 329 (1949)

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an ivory handle in the shape of a nude female figure supporting the breasts was found by the Swedish Cyprus Expedition. (1)

The presence of this statuette in a room adjoining that of the horned god and on a floor approximately contemporary with those on which that god was worhipped, may indicate that it represents an associate goddess of the horned god.

The same type of deity is represented by a lead statuette ( Inv. 55 on Pl. LXXV,3 ) found in a looter's pit within the compound.

Inscribed clay ball ( Inv. 702 on Pl. LXX, 1,2). This is 2,5 cms in diameter and is of the well-known type of clay ball previously found at Enkomi (2). Found in square B- r 20-22 (south), level 10.89-11.14(top-

(1). SCE I, Pl. CLII,7. The same type occurs in Cyprus in the Late Bronze Age ~~also~~ in terra-cotta; cf. J. L. Myres, Catalogue of the Cesnola collection, p. 335ff. and Fig. 2014

(2). Murray and others, Excavations in Cyprus, p.27. Cf. A. Evans, P. of M., IV, 760; S. Casson, Ancient Cyprus, 83; A. Persson, Some Inscribed terracotta balls from Enkomi in(Symbola Philologica, Uppsala, 1932); J. F. Daniel in AJA XLV, 249 ff, [handwritten: Schaeffer]

Handwritten: above, p.

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