Illustrations

The illustrations presented here are simply to illustrate the type of material under study.  An exhaustive catalogue of illustrations corresponding to the text of the ebook can be found in vol. 2 of my French doctoral thesis  to be found on the CNRS website TEL : Valerie Cook Thesis.

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Bronze Figurines

left: Enkomi figurine from an 11th century B.C. context
right: Ugarit figurine from a 13th century B.C. context

(from C.F.A. Schaeffer, Enkomi Alasia, Paris, Klincksieck, 1952, pl.s. LXXIV,1 and LXXVI, 2)

The Seated El figurine as found hidden in a cavity under the debris of a fallen house on the most recent 11th century B.C. level at Enkomi.
(from C.F.A. Schaeffer, Enkomi-Alasia, Paris, Klincksieck, 1952, pl. LXXI)

The El figurine (14 cm.) placed on the bronze chair as found in the cavity at Enkomi.
(from C.F.A. Schaeffer, Enkomi-Alasia, Paris, Klincksieck, 1952, pl. LXII)

The El figurine, that must have originally belonged to the bronze chair found on level 1. It was found on the floor of the level 2 (late 12th century B.C.) of the same house.
(from C.F.A. Schaeffer, Ekomi-Alasia, Paris, Klincksieck, 1952,
pl. LXXV)

Figurines of the god El found on the levels 1 and 2 of Enkomi.
(from C.F.A. Schaeffer, Enkomi-Alasia, Paris, Klincksieck, 1952,
pl. LXXIV)

The bronze miniature seat alone, where the structure more appropriate to the level 2 figurine can be observed
(from C.F.A. Schaeffer, Enkomi-Alasia, Paris, Klincksieck, 1952, pl.LXXIII)

The horned God (55 cm) found in a cult area of the House 1, placed in a cavity under the 12th century B.C. level 2 at Enkomi.
(from K. Hadjioannou, Alasia 1 Paris, Klincksieck 1971, fig. p.34)

The Ingot God statuette (35 cm) found on the 12th century B.C.  level III of the Ingot God Sanctuary at Enkomi.
(from C.F.A. Schaeffer Alasia I, Paris, Klincksieck, 1971, pl. III)

An El effigy found at Enkomi. (ht. 11 cm)

(from C.F.A. Schaeffer, Alasia I, Paris, Klincksieck, 1971, fig. 6)

Figurine of the god Baal (ht. 12 cm) discovered in the ruins of a house covering the surface of level II at Enkomi
(from C.F.A. Schaeffer in Alasia I, Paris, Klincksieck, 1971, p. 511, fig. 4)

Reshef figurine (17.9 cm) found at Ugarit.
(from C.F.A. Schaeffer, Syria 1929, tome X, 4, pl. L)

El figurine (12.1 cm), pictured in profile above, found at Ugarit.
(from C.F.A. Schaeffer, Syria 1929 tome X, 4, pl. LIV, fig. 1 )

A Naked woman standing on an oxhide ingot (ht. 0.099 cm) in the Bomford Collection at Wiltshire.
(from H.W. Catling, Alasia I, Klincksieck, Paris 1971, fig.3,
p. 18).

Terracotta fragments of two bi-cephale Centaurs

Centaur A fallen from a bench onto floor II (late 12th century B.C.) in the Ingot God Sanctuary at Enkomi.
(J.C. Courtois, Alasia I, Paris Klincksieck 1971,
fig. 123, p. 293)

Centaur B found alongside Centaur A in the Ingot God Sanctuary at Enkomi.
(J.C. Courtois, Alasia I, Pairs Klincksieck, fig. 124,
p. 295).

Centaur B  (ht. 31 cm).
(from J.C. Courtois, Alasia I, Paris , Klincksieck, 1971, p. 296, fig. 125 )

Centaur B  (l. 25, 5 cm).
(from J.C. Courtois, Paris, Klincksieck, 1971, Alasia I, p. 299, fig. 127)

Centaur A
(reconstituted ht. 51 cm).

(from J.C. Courtois, Alasia I, Paris, Klincksieck, 1971, p. 288, fig. 119)

An Early Bronze Age (2100-2000 B.C.) Red Polished vase from the cemetery of Vousnous.
(V. Karageorghis, Cyprus Museum, Athens, Ekdotike Hellados S.A., 1975, p.36, fig. 25)

A Geometric centaur from Lefkandi, Euboea (Greece).
(from J.C. Courtois, Alasia I, Paris , Klincksieck, p. 299, fig 127 C)

Swords with Balkan Naue II prototypes

Swords found from well 212 at Enkomi in a context of Myc. III C: 1b pottery (ca. 1200 B.C.).
(from J. Lagarce, in Alasia I, p. 412, fig. 19)

(from J. Lagarce, in Alasia I, p. 412, fig. 19)

(from J. Lagarce, inAlasia I, p. 414, fig. 20)

(from J. Lagarce, inAlasia I, p. 414, fig. 20)

sword found in Enkomi tomb 18 in a late 13th century context.
(from C.F.A. Schaeffer, Enkomi Alasia, Paris Klincksieck, 1952, pl. LXVIII)

(a) Develpopment of the Balkan Naue II sword type into the Eastern Mediterranean Group IV (from H.W. Catling, Cypriot Bronzework inthe Mediterranean World, p. 115).
(b) Iron sword found in the 11th century B.C. Tomb 76 at Skales (from V. Karageorghis, Compte Rendu de l’Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres, 1980, p. 130, fig. 10.
(c) Swords from a 14th century B.C. deposit at Ras Shamra (from C.F.A. Schaeffer, in Ugaritica III,
p. 258).

Hoard of bronzes buried at Ugarit including a Balkan type sword.
(from C.F.A. Schaeffer, Syria 1929, pl. L)

Ritual falcons

Gold sceptre from a tomb at Kourion – Kaloriziki (11th century B.C.).
(from V. Karageorghis, Cyprus Museum, Ekdotike Athenon S.A., Athens 1975, fig. 39)

(C.F.A. Schaeffer, Syria 1929)

Falcon statuette found at Minet el Beida (Ugarit).
(C.F.A. Schaffer, Syria, 1929, tome 10 )

Items

Gold plaque representing Astarte
found at Ugarit.

(from C.F.A. Schaeffer, Syria,
1929, pl. LIV, fig. 2)

Bronze Tripod, (ht. 12.1 cm), found at Ugarit in a 14th century context.
(from C.F.A. Schaeffer, Syria 1929, pl. L)

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