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My dear Master,
This short note to share with you at once my great joy: here is the first fruit of my new Franco-British mission at Enkomi. I have received Dikaios's report. The statuette has been found in a building adjoining the one cleared in our area. N. on a floor, standing, in a corner, of the level of the end of the 13th or of the 12th c. (see Str. Comp. pl. 314, Town I). It is indisputably a Cypriot work. The god wears a cap of animal skin from which emerges a pair of large horns. In the room next to the one which yielded the statuette, there are several skulls of young bulls (and one must compare here the cylinder seals Cypr. and Syr. with priests wearing tiaras with horns, and I also think of the prophet Sédécias Canaanite whom you had pointed out to me in the time, I Rois XXII, 11, see Mon. Piot. 1934, p. 9). A small harpé in bronze was placed near the right hand of the god. Among the vessels removed from the same room as the statue, there are foreign types to Cyprus, prob. Syrian. First impression: Syrian god = Baal, probably strongly influenced by local style of the beginning of the Iron … continues
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