The land of the Hittites : $b An account of recent explorations and discoveries in Asia Minor, with descriptions of the Hittite monumentsGarstang, John
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The land of the Hittites : $b An account of recent explorations and discoveries in Asia Minor, with descriptions of the Hittite monuments
Garstang, John
Hittites; Turkey -- Antiquities
The twenty-second figure is quite different, and worthy of special study.
It is of much greater size, being eight feet high, and it stands alone
on the inner face of a projection in the rock, thus facing the innermost
portion of the enclosure where the two processions meet. In it we see
again upon a larger scale the details of costume, with toga, skull-cap,
and tip-tilted shoes, which we have already noticed in connection
with the ninth figure on the left, only in this case the figure faces
to the observer’s left; the left arm is thus the one that is sleeved,
and the loose end of the robe hangs over the right shoulder, reaching
almost to the ground and ending possibly in a tassel. The dirk is by
the right side, and the reversed lituus is grasped in the left hand,
which is raised to hold it. The cap has three bands round the edge; a
pigtail is possible but doubtful. The feet rest on two rounded pedestals
with scale-like surfaces;[531] and the extended right hand supports a
series of emblems.[532] These form a somewhat complicated group; in the
middle of it there is a small bearded figure wearing a conical ribbed
hat which tilts forward at the top, and clad in a long robe decorated
with scale-like pattern. At the sides are three protrusions which are
difficult to explain.[533] This little figure rests upon what resembles a
Hittite shoe, the toe of which is prominently upturned. Its left hand is
upraised above the head, and the right arm is outstretched. The outside
elements of this emblem are tapering columns of three flutes capped by
Ionic volutes; between these and the figure a third device intervenes
on each side, consisting possibly of a dirk with its point resting in a
quiver. The whole is covered by a device in which two rosettes form the
central features, the lower one encircled by a horseshoe-shaped object,
and borne on a pair of outspread wings as previously described. This
figure, we shall find, recurs once more in a group in the adjoining
gallery, to which we shall shortly pass.
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