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 432 (1949)

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area west of it, among the ox skulls. All this evidence illustrates a Cypriot tradition which lasted from the Early Bronze to the Archaic period, a fact which should be taken into consideration when trying to identify the god. Of course Reshef is a fertility god, but he is usually represented with the right arm raised and hurling the thunderbolt (1) Our statue represents a different attitude, the extended right arm suggesting protection. Statuettes similar to the typical representation of Reshef or Hadad do occur in Cyprus (2) and there is a statuette of bronze with gold plating in the Cyprus Museum (3) which according to all indications comes from the site of Enkomi. In view therefore

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(1) Cf. The stela from Ugarit, in Dussaud, Art Phenicien du IIe millénaire Fig. 35, and the statuette from Melkart-el-Reika in ibid Fig. 34, as well as other statuettes in ibid Fig. 29.

(2) Dussaud, Civil. Préhell. 324 quoting Babelon et Blanchet, Cat. des Bronzes ant. No.5. 898-904. Cf. Demargne, Crète Dedalique, 83.

(3) Cf. my Guide to the GM., 106.

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