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objects found here, or from a later date (tend
1 ccn-
! tury), when die inscripti on was cut on the existing 87. The differences between the box lid and p. 15'j
sarcophagus. Aegean works are
lOintor The Aegean and the Oriental ffccSW
P- 154 76. See Annual of the British School of Archaeology Millennium B.C., 87 ff.
at At!‘cns' xxxv“ (1936-37), 106-22. Monuments
88. See above, p. 145.
inscribed with the name of the Hyksos ruler Kliian
have been found in Egypt, Crete, and Babylon, and 89. Sec above, p. 131.
such an cphcmral empire would coincide with the 90. Olga Tu fuel I, Charles H. I„gCt and Lan­
griffin s habitat after the period of the migrations. caster Harding, Lachish II, The Fosse Temple (L 011-
don, 1940), plate xviii.
In Egypt it appears once at the end of the Hyksos
period, on the axe of Queen Aahhotep. It reappears, 91. hi addition to the box referred to in the
in the nineteenth dynasty (thirteenth century n.c.), preceding note, the finds at Tell cd Duweir (Lach­
on objects depicted among Syrian tributes in the ish) included a tall flask for perfume, its neck
tombs of certain Pharaohs; textiles, shields, and carved in the shape of a woman’s head, while the
vessels. See P. Montet, Lcs reliqtics de Fart Syrien body of the flask was decorated as if it rendered a
dans 1’Egyptc du nouvcl Empire (Paris, 1937), 111-13. gown. A spoon-shaped lip projecting beyond the
opening allowed one to collect a few"drops of the
77. This is the First Syrian Group discussed in
Frankfort, Cylinder Seals, 252-8, plates xli. The precious contents at a time by tilting the flask.
Other finds include ivory masks of statuettes, and
dates given there should be corrected by til c new
the usual small accessories or ornaments shaped like
date of Hammurabi (1792-50 b.c.) and read as
about 1S00-1500 B.c. ducks heads, a gazelle’s head, a cat, and so on (op.
cit., plates xv-xvii).
\ 7S. Annual of the British School of Archaeology at
92. Such objects figure among the tribute re­
Athens, xxxvii, 121 ff.
ceived by Pharaohs of this period: Pierre Montet,
79. Illustrated London News, 22 July 1939, 163,
figure 16. Lcs reliqtics de l’art Syrien (Paris, 1937), 48 f.
/ 93. Gordon Loud, Megiddo Ivories, plate 13, no.
So. Recently the engraved design of a lion attack­
ing a griffin has been found with other ivories in 54-
94. E. Wallis Budge, Assyrian Sculpture in the
Delos, Bulletin de Corrcspondance Hclleniqtic, lxxi-ii
(1947-8), 148-254. British Museum, Reign of Assurnasirpal, plate li, 3.
95. Memoircs de ITnstitut Francis d’Archtologic p. 157
Si. A group of ivory plaques inlaid 011 the foot­
board of a bedstead have recently been found at Orientate, xvi (1939), 229, figure 11S. Anubis ac­
Ras Shamra. They resemble the stele of plate 141 quired tliis active pose probably as a protector
against demons of the nether world; the head rest
in that the drawing is strongly influenced by Egypt found in a tomb, and Anubis, and his pendant,
while the subjects arc native, and very unusual. A was
a lion, hold the knives known from vignettes of the
bearded king kills a kneeling enemy with his sword;
Book of the Dead and similar works where Anubis
a horned and winged goddess gives her breasts to and his helpers destroy dangerous spirits.
two mortals; a man carries a small lion, etc. See
96. N. de Garis Davies, The Tomb of Kenamun
Illustrated London News, 27 March 1954, 489 ff-
(New York, 1930), plate xviii.
82. E.g. Frankfort, Cylinder Seals, plate xliv(b).
p- 155 97. P. Montet, Lcs rcliques de Fart Syrien dans
American Journal of Archaeology, li (1947), plate
FEgypte du Nouvcl Empire (Paris, 1937), 173-4-
xxiii(A) (drawing).
98. Ibid., no with figure 148.
83. A. S. Murray, A. H. Smith, and H. B. Wal-
ters, Excavations in Cyprus, plate i. 99. Ibid., 45-8; 173 &•
Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, m (1916),
84. R. de Langhc, Les Textes de Ras Shamra ct 100.
leurs rapports avee le milieu biblique de VAncicn Testa­ plate xi. , .
101. Montet, op. cit., 173, figure 200 This is the
ment (Paris, I945)> u> 251-354- figure from the base of the statue of Horemlicb
85. Published by C. F. A. Schaeffer in Syria, x and Queen Mutnedjem in Turin. Cf. Journal of
(1929), 291-3- Egyptian Archaeology, xxxix (i953)> Platc x-
,
, -
86. There is, possibly, one exception in a badly . iL Its long thin neck also recalls works from P- -5*
_
damaged ivory from Mycenae, where Schaeffer and Tell cl Amarna and a comparison wi
Dussaud, Gazette des Bcaux-Arts, lxxii (1930), 6-7,
Palestinian ivories seems to corroborate the
recognize a front leg of a goat of which the rest has
we assign to it. Sec below n. no (p. 253;-
disappeared.
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