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 418 (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 stylistic 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 Mikoni, 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, BSA 1959, pp.11-12; Kantor, AJA LI, 53, 99. (2) V.Stais, Collection Mycénienne p.90 No.214, 68; Hall, Civilization of Greece in the Bronze Age, p.136, fig.157. A similar head comes from Enkomi but the nose is broken; cf. Murray and others _Excavations in Cyprus_, Pl.II, 1940. (3) Bossert, Alt-Kreta Fig.226.

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