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 334 (1949)

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… of proportion. The shield is of the same round form which occurs on other representations of Philistines (1) or of other "peoples of the sea" (2).

Its surface is textured in a manner which suggests a skin cover (3) and it has a central boss the form of which is not quite clear. A little above the boss there projects a pointed object, which may be the point of a dagger held in the right hand of the warrior (4). The warrior therefore is represented in the attitude of attack. [handwritten: (Mycenaean?)]

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(1). cf. Evans, Scripta Minoa I, p. 25 Fig. 146. (2). Evans, P. of M. IV, p. 804, Fig. 780-1. The round shield is considered of Asiatic (or perhaps Syrian) origin, cf. P. Demargne, La Crète dédalique, p. 197. The shield of the warrior killing a griffin on the Enkomi ivory mirror handle is also found: Murray and others, Excavations in Cyprus, Pl. II, 872 A. (3). On the custom of covering wooden shields with skins see G. Glotz, La Civilisation Égéenne (2nd ed.) p. 597. (4). For Philistines with shields and daggers, see A. Evans, Scripta Minoa I, p. 25, Fig. 146.

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