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
[511] No. 17.
[512] No. 12.
[513] Nos. 14, 15.
[514] Resembling a large double bellows. Professor Sayce points out the
analogy with a Hittite hieroglyph in an inscription from Emir-Ghazi. (See
above, p. 183.)
[515] Nos. 19, 20.
[516] Nos. 22, 25.
[517] Nos. 23, 24.
[518] No. 21.
[519] Nos. 26, 27.
[520] Nos. 28-30.
[521] No. 31 of the whole series.
[522] Nos. 32-43.
[523] A schedule of the figures with our reference numbers may be of use:
LEFT.
⎰ 1 L. One standing on two others, bearded and exalted. ⎱ Pl. LXV.
⎱ 2, 3. Two others, younger, on pinnacles. ⎰
⎧ 4. One similar, but not raised aloft.
⎪ 5. One winged. ⎫
⎨ 6, 7. Two females as a group. ⎬ Pl. LXIII. (ii).
⎪ 8. A second winged. ⎭
⎩ 9. One with lituus and toga; winged rosette above (cf. 22 R.).
⎧ 10-13. Four with scimitars, of which one is winged. ⎱ Pl. LXIV.
⎨ 14, 15. Two monsters as a group (Pl. LXVI.). ⎰
⎩ 16-18. Three with scimitars.
⎧ 19-20. Two with maces like the leaders.
⎪ 21. One with arms and hat forward.
⎪ 22. One with mace.
⎨ 23, 24. Two with no weapons visible.
⎪ 25. One with mace.
⎩ 26-27. Two with arms and hat forward.
⎧ 28. One indistinct (tunic and hat).
⎨ 29-31. Three robed and bearded.
⎩ 32-43. Twelve in line, running.
RIGHT.
⎧ 1 R. One female on back of panther. ⎱ Pl. LXV.
⎨ 2. One youthful male with double axe. ⎰
⎩ 3, 4. Two similar to first, forming a group on double eagle.
5-21. Seventeen in procession resembling 1 R. (Pl. LXVII.).
22 R=65. One with lituus, toga, and winged rosette, etc., in hand,
standing on two stony mounds (Pl. LXVIII.).
[524] See the photograph, Pl. LXV. The head-dress was commonly employed
by the Phrygian women. Its shape is recalled by the modern hat of the
Turkoman women, which is worn covered by a shawl to serve at times as a
veil.
[525] These emblems are composed in each case of pictorial or
hieroglyphic signs, and in them doubtless lies the clue to the
identification of the figures. A sign like a divided oval (which
Professor Sayce believes to represent a sacred stone) is found at the
commencement of each group accompanying a divine or exalted personage.
[526] A similar detail is noticeable on a familiar Etruscan design.
[527] Cf. the sculpture from Sinjerli, Pl. LXVII. (ii). See also p. 104.
[528] Cf. the sculpture at Eyuk, Pl. LXXII.
[529] Cf. a similar detail ornamenting the emblem above figs. No. 9 L.
and 22 R. (Pl. LXVIII.).
[530] At Eyuk they clutch hares, Pl. LXXII. and p. 268.
[531] Clearly stony hilltops, as on the gates of Balawat.
[532] Arranged, as Professor Ramsay suggests (_Luke the Physician_, p.
212) to resemble a ναΐσκος.
[533] Possibly, suggests Prof. Sayce, a sort of fringe.
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