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notes
~5 note) that this
name was used in the second
niilleniuin b.c. 57- Cylinder Seals, plate xliv(n). They also occur
p. 129 on ai1 ivory box from Megiddo, where sufficient
49- Antiquaries* Journal, xxx (1950), plate vi(a) remains to justify the restoration of Loud
and (b). Megiddo Ivories, plates 1-3. , The
50. Dclaportc, Malatya, plate xxii, 2. Two gods 58. This detail was established by Dr Helene J.
confront a snake. We do not know whether the Kantor in studying the original. See Loud, Megiddo
element in which it writhes is fire or water. The Ivories, plate 11(g).
wavy lines above the snake recur 011 the Tyzkicwicz
cylinder (Frankfort, Cylinder Seals, plate xliii(n) and 59. See below Chapter 11, n. 69.
(o)), which is certainly Hittitc, and there they seem 60. Giitcrbock thinks, however, that it may be
the Hittitc sun-god. See 11. 30 above.
to render flames in which the victim is burned. If
the relief should depict a fire-dragon, the three 61. Giitcrbock, Siegel aus Bogazhoy (Beiheft 5, 7.
figures above could b? compared with figure 29 Archiv fiir Orientforschung (Berlin, 1940, 1942));
(and plate 53), minor deities pouring water to Frankfort, Cylinder Seals, plate xliii(n) and (o).
quench the monsters’ flames. The relief has been 62. See p. 137 below. F-
connected with one of the few known myths of the
Hittites, in which the snake Illuyankas is lulled in CHAPTER 10
connexion with a battle between the weather god 1. Annals of Archaeology and Anthropology, Liver- p. ij
and the sea (translated by A. Goetze, in Near
pool, xxii, 166.
Eastern Texts relating to the Old Testament (Prii 1CC-
2. Sec Alexis Mallon, S.J., Robert Kocppcl, S.J.,
ton, 1950). 125 ff; also Kleinasicn, 130 ff.). In that
ease the wavy lines may mean water, but the con­ Rene Ncurillc, Tclcilat Ghassul I (Rome, 1934).
3. Sec the preliminary report by Dr Kathleen
nexion with the myth is not proved. It is unfortu­
nate that the stone is broken above the snakes’ Kenyon in Illustrated London News, 17 October
heads, for if there were seven, it would represent 1953> 603-4, widi plate iv.
a link between Greece and Mesopotamia (where it 4. The work still awaits publication; a prclimi- p. 1;
.
is known in the third millennium) in the diffusion nary rcPort aPPcarcd in American Journal oJ Archac-
of the myth of Hcraklcs and Iolaus killing the oloSY> xu (*937), 13, figure 3. I am obliged to Ur
Hydra (sec n. 42 (p. 239)). In that case the deities J* Brajdwoocb the discoverer, an to c
above would be pouring out oil to feed the flames Director of the Oriental Institute, w 10 ia\c -m >
in which the monster perished. aUowcd mc t0 reproduce these sculptures.
p. 130 51. Bossert, Altanatolicn, nos. 550-64. The Hit- 5- Gods carrying a spear occur among certain
seem
tite rock sculptures of western Anatolia arc dis- radicr crude figurines cast in c<JPPcr w c , ,
cussed by Bittel in Archiv fiir Orientforschung, xm to dcr*ve from die Lc anon. icy were

( SwlU M, ,nd F Kjioll, DenU- ***“

maleraus Lykaottien, Pmphylien undlsaurien (Britan, P atcS‘X X“L ^ Excavations at Brak and
1935). Also Bossert, Altanatol.en, nos. 565-d. clmgarB„Z(lr]m Iraq, ix (1947). The heads are dis-
53. This reasonable suggestion has been made by
cussed on pp. 91-3 and illustrated in plates i-«-
Giitcrbock in Halil Edhem Hatira Kitabi (Ankara,
Our interpretation differs in some points from 1
1947), 63.
of the excavator.
54. It has recently been described in detail by 7. An alternative interpretation would see m the F- *
Giitcrbock, ‘Altc und ncuc Hcthitischc Denk- projections which I have described as dowek J
maler*, in Halil Edhem Hatira Kitabi, 59-70. , rendering of a narrow, taU cap such as is worn b> a
55. The monument has been studied by Sedat bronze figure from Ras Shamra, i,5°° Yc
Alp, in Archiv Orientals, xvm, part 1-2 (Praha, Scc c p A> Schaeffer, Ugaritica /, plates x. -
1950), 1-8. xxxn.
<<5. Frankfort, Cylinder Seals, plate xhi(k); 8. Iraq, ix, plate ii, 3- .
p. 131
xliv(d), (j), and (1); and figures 84-6 (page 270) Pr31lkforti Sculpture of the Third MiHctnmm,
Another characteristic Syrian feature is the pose o 9 ^ Sculpture, plate 28G.
the bull with lowered horn at the bottom of the ^ ^ platcs 59 and 94.
ivory plaque. See Cylinder Seals, plate xln(h).
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