C 1

Not figured.

Male, sitting figure, with its hands crossed on its knees. The pedestal

was square, remaining erect in the ground. The statue itself was

broken in six pieces, its face entirely crushed. It carried on its

head a round, column-shaped head-dress, similar to that delineated in

figure F, ornamented with transverse furrows and ending upwards in a

tenon. The ears were hidden by square, flat pieces 21 cm. in length,

resembling those of figure B. The head itself was 39 cm. long from the

base of the head-dress to the chin; 31 cm. broad across the forehead.

The breadth across the shoulders was 60 cm.

D

Pl. 5.

Male, standing figure. Head, chest with arms, and upper part of legs

broken off, and lying in four pieces on the ground. The pedestal

was square, with the upper part ornamented with angular wreaths; it

remained fixed in the ground in its original place, and carried still

the feet and the legs (to the knees) of the figure. The face was of

quite a different type from those of A and B, with very prominent

cheek-bones, large lips, and strongly protruding under-jaw; it was

adorned with a crown-shaped head-gear. The ears were also here hidden

by flat pieces, thickening upwards, with the lower corners rounded.

The back of this statue, as well as its position in the periphery of

the stone-mound, points to its having formed part of the wall of the

building; but it seems not, however, to have served the purpose of

supporting the roof, because the upper part of the crown was finely

chiselled, and exhibited no trace of a tenon. It differed in this point

from all the other statues in the circumference of the mound 1, with

the exception of E 1, that was situated almost opposite to D at the

western longside. The height of the head from the upper rim of the

crown to the lower edge of the chin was 45 cm. The length of the trunk

from the shoulders to the thighs was 60 cm. The breadth across the

shoulders was 54 cm.

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