This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 Excerpt: ...scene (cp. no. 1), shows relation to the preceding group not only in its human and animal forms but in the treatment of the larger ox's horns (cp. 17, 18) and in the inversion of one ox to fill up the field (cp. 15); but it shows also more life and vigour than the seals of group 1. No. 21 is remarkable for the depth of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 Excerpt: ...scene (cp. no. 1), shows relation to the preceding group not only in its human and animal forms but in the treatment of the larger ox's horns (cp. 17, 18) and in the inversion of one ox to fill up the field (cp. 15); but it shows also more life and vigour than the seals of group 1. No. 21 is remarkable for the depth of its intaglio and for cuneiform incision. The subject, besides its general stylistic resemblance to that of the preceding seal, repeats particular elements; e.g. the object before the adorant's feet should be compared with that behind the ploughman's head on 20. The wedge-shaped pyramidal marks which appear on this seal we shall find presently as a very common fill-up device characteristic of Class II. About no. 22 I feel less certain. It differs somewhat in style from the preceding and shows an element unique, so far as I know, in primitive Hittite seal-subjects, the double-headed eagle, borrowed from the early Babylonian symbolism of Lagash; while the Adad type of god, erect in combative attitude on a bull (?), also appears for the first time. But in conception and composition, as well as in manner of graving, it is too like 21 to be placed in any other group. No. 23 I place here at hazard. If it did not come from Tell Basher, I should not include it in the series at all; and even as it is, its characteristics, so far as they can be compared at all with any other of our seals, relegate it, perhaps, rather to Class II (cp. nos. 50 and 51). Possibly it is rather provincial Babylonian than Hittite. Group 3. Loop-bore Cylinders and Cognates For the distinction of this group Form and Local Origin can be invoked as well as Subject. Loop-bore cylinders (see p. 18) are so rare, and seem to come so exclusively from central North Syria (four out of ou...
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