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
[652] Compare the shield of the Hittite warrior shown on the north wall
of the temple of Rameses II. at Abydos, Egypt; below, Pl. LXXXIII. (ii).
[653] Compare Pls. LXV., LXVIII., LXXI.
[654] Compare Pl. LXXXI.
[655] But not projecting beyond it as with the lions of Eyuk, p. 263, and
Marash, Pl. XLII., Sakje-Geuzi, Pl. LXXIX.: compare the lion reliefs of
Angora, p. 162.
[656] _Ausgrabungen in Sendschirli_, iii. Pl. XLIV. (ii).
[657] For Nos. vii.-xv. see _Ausgrabungen in Sendschirli_, iii. Pl.
XXXVII.
[658] See Pl. LXXV. (i) (by courtesy of Dr. Messerschmidt).
[659] Cf. pp. 101, 111.
[660] P. 135.
[661] Compare a sculpture from Sakje-Geuzi, p. 105; also Pl. LXXXI.
[662] For a photograph of the sculptures ix.-xv., _in situ_, see Pl.
LXXVI., reproduced by courtesy of Professor A. H. Sayce and the S.P.C.K.,
from _The Hittites_, p. 70.
[663] This wall, it will be borne in mind, faces to the south, being the
inner wall of the inner pilaster. For the sculptures xvi.-xxxii., see
_Ausgrabungen in Sendschirli_, iii. Pl. XXXVIII.
[664] Cf. No. ii. above, Pl. LXXV. (ii).
[665] No. ii., Pl. LXXV. (ii).
[666] Compare the sphinx from Sakje-Geuzi, Pl. LXXXI. (i).
[667] _In Ausgrabungen in Sendschirli_, iii., Pl. XXXVIII., at the top,
these sculptures are aligned artificially with others for the photograph.
[668] Cf. the eagle-headed deity at Sakje-Geuzi, below, Pl. LXXX.
[669] On the general question of rearrangement of these sculptures, see
below, p. 296.
[670] See Pl. LXXVII. (i); and _Ausgrabungen in Sendschirli_, ii., Pl.
XLI. (i).
[671] Cf. the sculptures of Marash, p. 111, and of Boghaz-Keui, p. 217,
Pl. LXIII. (ii).
[672] _Ausgrabungen in Sendschirli_, iii., Pl. XLIV.
[673] _Ausgrabungen in Sendschirli_, iii., Pl. XLIII. No. 1.
[674] Letter from Miss K. Schlesinger, October 4, 1909.
[675] In the Camp Scene, Brit. Mus.
[676] Cf. the musicians of Eyuk, Pl. LXXIII. (ii).
[677] Cf. the sculpture of Marash, p. 118.
[678] Compare the features of the warrior, No. ii., Pl. LXXV. (ii), with
the god-figures, Pls. LXXV. (ii), LXXVII.
[679] Below, Pl. LXXIX.; and _Ausgrabungen in Sendschirli_, iii., Pls.
XLVI., XLVII.
[680] _Op. cit._, iii. p. 236 (with figs. 142, 143, 144, 145), where they
are ascribed to Byzantine origins.
[681] Above, p. 254 and Pl. LXXII.
[682] By the Liverpool expedition of 1908. _Liv. Annals of Archæology_,
i. (1908), pp. 97-117, and Pls. XXXIII.-XLIX.
[683] Cf. p. 205.
[684] Only the base or pedestal of the column was preserved, and the
excavators found reason to believe that, after the destruction of the
building, it had served some other purpose, possibly as an altar.
[685] See Pls. LXXVII., LXXXI.
[686] See Pls. LXXIX., LXXX.; and compare the lions of Marash (Pl.
XLII.), of Eyuk (p. 263), and of Sinjerli (p. 297). Also of Boghaz-Keui,
Pl. LX. and p. 210.
[687] Compare the treatment of the mounds upon which stands the
priest-dynast in the sculptures of Iasily Kaya, No. 22 R., Pl. LXVIII.
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