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small orthostats were older than Kaparu, and re­ 57. Von Oppcnhcim, op. cit., plate xxxv(b).
used and inscribed by him do not seem conclusive. 58. Op. cit., plates xxxvi-xxxxviii gives a sclcc-
The various irregularities can easily be explained as tion.
the results of that lack of skill which is anyhow 59. It is best known in the Early Dynastic Period,
abundantly illustrated by the reliefs, and in some but never quite disappears. Later examples are, for
eases to changes of the destination of stones while instance, Frankfort, Cylinder Seals, plates xxv(d)
the work was going on. and (g); xxxv(a); xxxvi(k); these arc the extreme
43. Nauinann, Tell Halaf, 11, 65, figure 29. form of‘crossed animals’; fighting pairs of animals
r-176
44. The text runs (somewhat freely rendered), arc much commoner.
‘ Palace of Kaparu, son of Khadianu. What my 60. Von Oppcnhcim, op. cit., plate xxviii(b).
father and my grandfather, of blessed memory (lit. 61. This has been commonly done, but I doubt
the deified), did not accomplish, I did achieve. whether tliis figure represents an established type
Whosoever shall delete my name to put here his rather than a designer’s whimsy. In any ease, one
own, liis sons shall be burned before the weather- cannot describe it as the seraph of Isaiah vi, 2, who,
god, his daughters shall become temple prostitutes having six wings, ‘with twain he covered his face,
of Ishtar. It is Abdi-ilu who has written the name of and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain
the king.’ See Meissner, in Aus fiinf Jahrtausenden he did fly’.
niorgcnlandischcr Kultur, Beiheft No. 1, Arcliiv fur 62. Von Oppcnhcim, op. cit., plate xxxiii(a).
Orientforschung, 1939, 71-9* 63. Von Oppcnhcim, Tell Halaf, plate xxxviii.
45. Antiquaries' Journal, xi (1931), plates 1, 3;
64. Edith Porada, Ancient Oriental Seals in the p. 179
Ii, 1 and 3. Library of J. Pierpont Morgan, nos. 608 and 609.
46. Bossert, Altanatolicn, figure 956, shows a 65. E. Wallis Budge, Assyrian Sculpture in the
figure from Mardin very like those from Tell British Museum, reign of Assurnasirpal, plates
Halaf, but he has not been able to discover anything xxxviii-xl and xliv-vi.
about its provenance (op. cit., 68), and the modern 66. Op. cit., plate xix(b). p. 1 So
city is close enough to Tell Halaf to make it possible
that it was brought from there at some time or 67. Op. cit., plate xx(a).
other. 6S. Op. cit., plate xxii(a).
47- Von Luschan, Ausgrabungen in Scndschirli, 69. The south gate of the Citadel and other
plate liv. defences were probably built by Kilamuva son of
Khayani, and the latter made submission to
4S. Von Oppenheim, Tell Halaf, plate xUv(b).
Shalmaneser III in 853 b.c.
49- Op. cit., plate xlv. The place is called ‘Kult-
raum’, but it is probably a tomb chapel, not a 70. Von Luschan, Ausgrabungen in Scndschirli,
shrine. plate xxxiv(g) and (h).
50. Akurgal, Spathcthitische Bildkunst, plate xl. 71. It occurs on a signet ring, bought at Konya
The woman holds a mirror, the man a bunch of (D. Hogarth, Iiittitc Seals, plate vii, no. 195), where
grapes. In two features it recalls Egyptian funerary it supports a winged god which Bittcl and Giiter-
statues: die man and woman each have one arm bock, Boghazkoy (Berlin, 1935)1 44, cf. Zcitschrift
round the shoulder of their partner; and the fiir Assyriologie, N.F. xv (1950), 258, assign with
group is carved in one piece with its own back­ good reason to imperial Hittite times.
ground of stone which is left standing. 72. Von Luschan, Ausgrabungen in Scndschirli,
51. Von Oppcnhcim, op. cit., plate xlvi. 288 f., 363.
P-177 52. Illustrated London News, 25 Oct. 1930, 707. 73. Dclaportc, Malatya, plates xiv, xv, xxvi-
p. 178 53• Frankfort, Cylinder Seals, 161, 171, and plate xxviii.
xxvii(k) and xxviii(g). 74. Landsberger, Sanial, 1, 49 f. and note 127
54- Op. cit., 205-15, csp. 209 ff. supposes that the Zin^irli statue represents a god
55- Op. cit., plate xxxiv(b) and figures 66 and 67 known only by the epithet ‘Lord of the lion cubs*.
on p. 219. 75. Von Luschan, op. cit., p. 84, figure 19.
56. Von Oppenheim, Tell Halaf, plate xxxvi (a). 76. R. D. Barnett, Carchcniish, in (London, 1952), p. 1S1
The sun disk is supported by a stool on late Assyrian 260.
seals, Biblioth&quc Nationalc no. 364; Ward, 77. Delaportc, Malatya, plate xxvi-xxx. Lands­
Cylinder-seals of Western Asia, no. 1100. berger, Sani al, 76 ff., identifies tliis king as Mutallu,

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