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… large pithos, which may be the remnants of the last dwellings of the town which were destroyed in some such final disaster.(1)
(2) The Statue. (Pl.LXXI-LXXIV).
The bronze statue 0.55 m. in height represents a youthful god standing in the frontal position, leaning slightly forward, with the left leg slightly advanced. The body is nude with the exception of a loin cloth held at the waist with a heavy girdle and decorated below with a fringe which is rendered with engraved vertical lines. The god wears a conical skin headdress from which emerge two horns like those of a bull. The surface of the headdress is covered with short curly locks evidently reproducing an animal's natural hair. The left arm is folded on the chest with clenched fist and the right bent at the elbow with the forearm extended horizontally and the hand palm downwards. The face shows remarkable refinement, the eyes are almondshaped, the nose straight, the cheeks prominent/and
(1) Alternatively these patches of ashes may belong to squatters who continued to live on the site following its abandonment.
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