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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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(probably bulls' masks) and in a tomb we actually found terracotta models of horns (1) which have holes through the edges probably for attachment in the performance of rites. The temenos of Ayia Irini, excavated by the Swedish Cyprus Expedition (2) contains ample evidence showing that the bull was the attribute of the god worshipped there from the Late Bronze Age to the Archaic stages of the temenos.

Thus the rites observed at Enkomi are akin to those of Vounous and Ayia Irini and show that the god represented by the bronze statue was one of fertility. The miniature sickle found in the pit of the statue is corroborating evidence connecting our god with the fertility of the earth. The connection of the god with the bull attribute is strengthened by the discovery of miniature models of bulls' horns of gold leaf found in the room adjoining that in which the statue was found (IX) and in the area

(1) Cf. my publication of the Excavations at Vounous in Archaeologia Pl.XXXVIII a.

(2) Cf. Sjoqvist, in Arch. für Religionswiss. XXX 3/4, 308 ff.

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