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Archaeol. Discovery in the Island of Cyprus. A warrior god protector of the copper mines 6. X. 63.
The French Archaeol. Expedition directed by Prof. C.F.A. Sch. of the Collège de France, member of the Académie des Inscriptions to which to which participates\, 5 Fr. archaeologists, and two foreign members an English and an Italian is in the process of carrying out its of carrying out its XVIth campaign of excavations among the underground ruins of the capital of Cyprus in the time of the Bronze Age (IInd mill. B.C.). This important city d'Ales app appelée of Alasia was identified by the French Expedition not far from Enkomi near Famagusta on the N E est - east coast of the island.
In the course of this research has just been was uncovered a vast sanctuary of the final period of the city (beginning of the Iron Age, XII-XI XIth c. B.C.). In the central courtyard of this along 17 m of this place of worship, on benches arranged along the walls whitewashed walls were deposited, in the middle of various pottery, some of which painted, the skulls and horns of numerous bulls, deer and other animals both domestic and wild having been sacrificed to the deity. A statue of this deity intact in A statue intact in solid bronze of this one, 35 cm. high, was discovered hidden at 80 cm depth under the floor of a kind of "treasure" of blood bath receptacle arranged in the corner north-east of the sanctuary •
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain