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… bovids fitted with their horns and also some bone remains of cervids.
It therefore probably belongs to the same immediately post-Mycenaean period as the fine statue of the horned god found some 75 metres away in a similar hiding place and in a similar archaeological context, during the excavations carried out in 1949 by the Antiquities Service within the Joint Franco-Cypriot Expedition, and which Mr P. Dikaios, then curator of the Archaeological Museum of Nicosia, will publish in volume II of this expedition (1).
The discovery at Enkomi in 1963 of the bronze statue of a warrior god standing on a Cypriot bronze ingot (we shall show it in volume II of Enkomi-Alasia in preparation) constitutes a major contribution to the knowledge of the civilisation and art of the final period, still very poorly known, of the protohistory of the island as of the whole region of the eastern Mediterranean. It has become customary to call this period that of the Peoples of the Sea and the North, whose movements, of obscure origin and causes, took place, in effect, during the last years of the 13th and the beginning of the 12th century, and whose contemporary Egyptian historians described the invasion of the Delta and the naval defeat at the mouths of the Nile in the time of Pharaoh Ramesses III (c.1198-1166).
C.F.A. Schaeffer.
(1) Volume I of the "French Archaeological Mission and Cyprus Government Joint Expedition to Enkomi" by C.F.A. Schaeffer, entitled Enkomi-Alasia, appeared in 1952. - While awaiting the second volume by Mr Dikaios, see his article The Bronze statue of a horned god from Enkomi, published in Archäologischer Anzeiger, Berlin, 1962, p. 18 et seq.
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