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thighs but also of the other muscular parts of the body, which is common in Minoan Crete (1).
Other features such as the conical headdress, the horns, the loincloth and the position of the arms reflect Asiatic and in particular Syrian art. Thus the extended arm is reminiscent of the bronze statuette of a seated goddess in the Louvre (2) while the folded arm reflects Egyptian art possibly transmitted through Syria (3) while the advanced leg is a common feature in Phoenician statuettes of Reshef (4).
It is therefore clear that the artist who made this statue had behind him two deeply rooted traditions: Mycenean on the one hand and Asiatic particularly Syrian on the other. It is just such a back- / ground
(1) BCH 1947-8, p.160.
(2) Dussaud, op.cit., 64, Fig.27 and Schaeffer, Ugaritica, 134, Fig.117. Cf. also the statuette of Anat in Schaeffer The Cuneiform Texts of Ras-Shamra,Pl. XXXV,2.
(3) The folded arm on the breast occurs also in archaic Cypriot art where it is reminiscent of Egyptian art. Cf. SCE IV, 358.
(4) Dussaud, op.cit., Fig.29, 34, 35.
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