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 395 (1949)

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… used for some ritual, and the presence of animal bones, stags' antlers and especially of horns of oxen suggest strongly animal sacrifices. We know the prominent part that the ox played in ritual both outside Cyprus and in the island, where, without going further, the evidence from the Vounous cemetery (1) and the Ayia Irini temenos (2) may be cited. The presence of miniature horns of oxen of gold sheet is a clear testimony that the ritual had some connection with the ox as an attribute of the deity worshipped.

On these grounds, we may connect the bowls piled up in room X with offerings for some ritual act such as libation. The presence of the trough, although found above the level of the bowls, is significant, as also the animal and bird bones found under the similar trough found in room IX.

The offering of oxens' horns has been / observed

(1) See my publication The Excavations at Vounous - Bellapais, in Archaeologia, Vol.88.

(2) Excavated by the Swedish Cyprus Expedition: cf. Archiv für Religionswiss., XXX, 1933, pp. 308 ff.

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