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 427 (1949)

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the same name, (1) continued to be worshipped in the twelfth century, he can be considered as a candidate only if it is finally proved that Enkomi is Alasia.

It is however interesting to observe in the rites performed, and especially the sacrificial offerings in room IX and the area west of it (for floor II) or north of it (room XIII) for floor I, certain features which occur in Cyprus in the Early Bronze Age or in sites other than Enkomi dating from the Late Bronze Age to the Archaic period. For the Early Bronze Age I refer to the evidence brought to light in the cemetery of Vounous near Bellapais, (2) where the bull plays a prominent part in the iconography of the period. In particular, the figures represented in relief on the interior face of the wall of the temenos model (3) seem to wear horns / (probably

(1)Hill op.cit, 42 note 2, quoting Schrader, Die Keilinschriften u. das Alte Test., 1902-3, p.414.

(2)Cf. my publication of the Excavations at Vounous in Archaeologia, 88, 7 ff.

(3)Ibid p. 118 ff. Pl.VIII.

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