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 417 (1949)

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wrought the two figures were inspired by the same ideals and expressed the same artistic tendencies.

If we examine the stylistical features of the statue in order to assess the influences under which it was made, we have no difficulty in coming to the same conclusion as has been reached in regard to the ivories and other works of art discovered at Enkomi, namely that it reflects both Aegean and Asiatic features (1).

Thus the straight nose is observable on an ivory head of a warrior from Mycenae (2), the profile of which is particularly similar to that of our bronze statue , and on another Mycenaean ivory head of a warrior from Spata (3). The smile is known not only on Minoan works of art, eg. the ivory /head

(1) Cf. Barnett, PEFQ 139, pp.11-12; Kantor, AJA LI, 93, 99.

(2) V.Stais, Collection Mycenienne p.90 No.24, 68; Hall, Civilization of Greece in the Bronze Age, p.136, Fig.167. A similar head comes from Enkomi but the nose is broken, cf. Murray and others Excavations in Cyprus, Pl.II, 1340.

(3) Bossert, Alt-Kreta Fig.226.

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