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Cypriot coroplastic receives oriental influences, from the Syro-palestinian coast, at least since the Late Bronze Age, which is apparent in the nude figurines of the Base-Ring category. These influences, visible in the technic and the thematic matters, also reveal deeper changes in the religious culture of Cyprus, which will however be submitted to other influences soon, those from the Aegean world. The second period when Cypriot coroplastic is evidently under oriental influence takes place during the vnth-vith centuries BC, probably with the arrival of the Phoenicians who may have introduce in Cyprus the moulding technique, as well as images and religious concepts that the Cypriot mentalities will soon westernize.