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, p. 208 (1949)

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thigs 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 lotiform 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 Resheph (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 particulary Syrian on the other. It is just such a background

(1) BQH 1947-8, p. 160.

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. SOM IV, 358.

(4) Dussaud, op.cit., fig.29, 34, 35.

65 figures hard to read~~struck~~ struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain