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Document·34 CDF art. 168-1·1949

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 SchaefferPorphyrios Dikaios and Claude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer

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is proved by the masses of Syro-Palestinian amphorae appearing at Enkomi in the LCIII period (v. supra p. ).

To name the god represented by the statue is perhaps not so important at the present juncture. Dr. Schaeffer, (1) assuming that Enkomi is Alasia, thinks that it represents Apollo Alasiotes-Reshef of the bilingual inscription from Tamassus (2). My suggestion (3) that we might identify the bronze statue with the god Nergal mentioned in the Tell-el- Amarna letters between the king of Alasia and Akhenaten was also based on the assumption that Enkomi is Alasia. However, as we shall see, the statue cannot be earlier than the twelfth century and even if the god Nergal, who is thought by some authors to be a local diety and not the Babylonian god of / the

(1)ILN Aug. 20, 1949, 278.

(2)Cf. G.Hill, History of Cyprus, I, 48.

(3)ILN Aug. 27, 1949, 316.

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

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