A BRONZE STANDARD FROM CYPRUS
Öz The object which we will discuss belöw was found at Maa-Palaeokastro in 1984, during the excavations of the Department of Antiquities of the Republic of Cyprus. İt is dedicated with affeetion to Professor Ekrem Akurgal, a friend for över a quarter of a century. Maa-Palaeokastro is a peninsula north of Paphos in western Cyprus, which was settied c.1230 B.C. by refugees who came from the Aegean and who may tentatively be associated with the ‘Sea Peoples’. This is the time when the Mycenaean ‘Empire’ started collapsing and Troy Vlla was destroyed.
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