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
We come now to the last sculptures of the series, which form a group of
two figures.[544] The one is great and majestic, resembling on a large
scale in all details the youthful figure that stands upon the lioness
in the main series.[545] Only in this case the rings in the conical hat
are prominent, and seem not to lie wholly between the ribs, but to be
bisected by them. The left hand also, which in the other figure holds
the double-headed axe, here grasps the upraised right wrist of a smaller
figure, which his left arm enfolds about the neck. This smaller figure is
in all respects similar to that which we have met with twice previously
in the outer chamber,[546] clad in the toga as before, and carrying the
lituus reversed in the hand which is free. The curled end of a pigtail is
seen behind his shoulder, but this may be judged to belong to the larger
figure, on account both of its large scale and position, and because the
bare neck of the smaller figure is visible. Both figures are identified
by the emblems which accompany them: the greater by the device of a
small body and legs, held up as in its counterpart by the outstretched
right hand; the smaller one by the composite group placed in the bare
space above his head to the right. This is the same as that accompanying
the figure mentioned,[547] except for the small central figure which is
here replaced by a different symbol, thought by some to be a phallus.
The symbols on either side give the impression of _uraei_ crowned with a
disk, seen in full face, but the real motive is doubtful.
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