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
[594] Macridy Bey, _op. cit._, figs. 23, 24.
[595] Cf. the ‘Stadt-thor’ at Sinjerli; Von Luschan, _Ausgrabungen in
Sendschirli_ (Berlin, 1902), Pls. XXIX., XXXIV.; and below, p. 274.
[596] The recent excavators failed to see the remains of these sphinxes,
_op. cit._, p. 11, but they are quite plain in profile after the earth
has been cleared away; see a photo, _Liverpool Annals of Archæology_, i.
(1908), Pl. III.
[597] Cf. for example, Murray’s _Handbook for Asia Minor_, p. 27.
[598] Pl. LXXII. Cf. the details of the Sphinx from Sakje-Geuzi, Pl.
LXXXII.
[599] Cf. Maspero, _The Struggle of the Nations_, p. 648.
[600] See the photograph in Newberry, etc., _Short History of Egypt_ (ed.
1907), frontispiece. The special feature of the horseshoe-like head-dress
occurs on scarabs of the Hyksos period (cf. the same writer’s _Scarabs_,
London, 1906, Pl. XXV. No. 30), another suggestion of Asiatic origins.
[601] Berlin Mus., Etruscan Rooms, No. 1251. Compare also some weathered
statues from Sinjerli described below, pp. 297, 298.
[602] Cf. Pl. XLIV. See also what is said about this cult on p. 359.
[603] Cf. the round altars of Emir-Ghazi, p. 183, and the representations
at Fraktin, Pl. XLVII. p. 150.
[604] Cf. Sayce, _The Hittites_ (1903), p. 39, for revised translation of
this passage in the treaty: cited below, p. 349.
[605] Cf. Pl. LXVII.
[606] Cf. Pls. LXV.-LXVII.
[607] We cannot accept the theory of an intentional opening (Macridy Bey,
_op. cit._, p. 11).
[608] Cf. p. 105, Pl. XXXIX.
[609] At the Liverpool Institute of Archæology.
[610] Pl. LXXII.
[611] The stones of the lower course vary from 3 ft. 11 in. to 4 ft. 2 in.
[612] This is more clearly suggested in a second photograph taken in the
afternoon, with the shadows to the right hand.
[613] Traceable easily on the stone, but usually in shadow, owing to the
projection of the stone of the upper course.
[614] ‘The bagpipe consists of the skin of a dog apparently, the
insufflation pipe being at the tail end, while the drone pipe was
probably concealed within the dog’s head, with the vent through its
mouth. The same idea was carried out in the Middle Ages in Europe. Cf.
Aristophanes, _Acharnians_ (i. 866): ‘you flute-players who are here from
Thebes blow the dog’s tail with your bone-pipes’ (Extract from a letter
from Miss K. Schlesinger).
[615] Pl. LIII.
[616] Pl. LXV.
[617] Pl. XLVII.
[618] MM. Perrot and Guillaume in particular seem to have fallen before
the pitfalls of perspective in the picture, and their drawing is
misleading (_Exploration Archéologique, Cappadoce_, Pl. LXIV.; _Art in
... Asia Minor_, ii., fig. 338). They have been followed by others.
[619] Perrot and Chipiez, _op. cit._, p. 174, fig. 339.
[620] See below, Pls. LXXIX., LXXX.
[621] See Perrot, _Art in ... Asia Minor_, ii., fig. 341 and fig. 340;
_Exploration_, Pl. LVII.
[622] Macridy Bey, _op. cit._, figs. 23, 24.
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