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king of Kummuhi, who received Malatya in 712
plate liii. We have seen (p. 82, fig. 35) that thc
B.c. for his services to Sargon of Assyria, but was Assyrians adopted this type of base when they
suspected of treason in 708. Thc richness of surface structcd a portico occasionally. con-
detail docs not succeed in hiding thc plastic in­
93- As in the ease of thc relief from thc water
adequacy of thc work, which is clumsy and ill-
proportioned. gate the presence of these processions among thc
reliefs shows that certain Hittitc usages continued
p. 181 78. Dclaportc, op. cit., plate xxix; Garstang, The
m thc cult, not that a tradition of imperial Hittitc
Hittitc Empire, plate xlix, 1.
art was maintained. It is characteristic that thc pro­
79. H. R. H. Hall, Babylonian and Assyrian Sculp­ cessions occur after they had become important in
ture in thc British Museum, plate xix. Assyrian decoration. If there had been a connexion
50. For a similar figure, see H. Ingholt, Rapport with say, Alaga Hiiyiik, their appearance by the end
preliminaire snr sept campaniles dc fouilles a Hama of thc seventh century would be most odd.
(Copenhagen, 1940), plates xxxvi-xxxvii. 94- Von Luschan, op. cit., plate lxii.
p. 1S3 51. Woolley, Carchcmish, 11, plate 1330(a). 95- Op. cit., 375.
Akurgal, in his Spathethitische Bildkunst, assigns 96. See thc stool of Assumasirpal in plate 89 and
tliis relief to an older period, together with those bronze pieces of similar furniture from Nimrud in
from Malatya (see above, n. 7 (p. 254)) but thc thc British Museum. S. Smith (Antiquaries' Journal,
stylistic differences (as opposed to thc identical xxir, 93, n. 1) calls the stool of Barrekub Urartian;
subject matter) exclude contemporaneity, since thc but Urartian is peripheral Assyrian. See below n.
affinities of the Malatya style arc with imperial 105 (p- 258)-
Hittitc monuments and those of the Carchcmish 97. See above, p. 93, plate 97.
relief with north Syrian works, in particular with 9S. Von Luschan, op. cit., plate liv. p. 1SJ
its companion piece (Woolley, op. cit., plate 300), 99. John Garstang, Thc Hittitc Empire, 224-35.
of which thc eighth century date is beyond doubt,
Stele from Ncirab near Aleppo in Clermont Gan-
as set out in our text.
ncau, Etudes d'Archcologic Orientale, n (Paris,
82. Woolley, op. cit., plate B3o(b). 1897), 182-223; Bossert, Altanatolien, nos. 806-15.
83. Von Luschan, Ausgrabungen in Sendschirli, 100. This is also shown by thc monument of
220, figure 119. These lutes differ in their arrangc- Darende (I. Gclb, Hittitc Hieroglyphic Monuments,
ment of thc cords from that depicted at Alaga plates xxiv-xxv; Dclaportc, Malatya, plate xxxv).
Hiiyiik, of imperial Hittitc times: Garstang, Hittitc
101. R. D. Barnett, in Journal of Hellenic Studies,
Empire, plate xxx(b). lxviii, 8-9. Phrygians, in this sense, includes thc
84. R. D. Barnett dates Katuwas (Carchcmish, 11 Mushki of Phrygia proper, and thc people ofTabal
plate Ai3d) to thc beginning of the 9th century (Lycaonia and Cappadocia); Urpallu was one of die
(1Carchcmish, m, 260 ff.) and Araras (Carchcmish I, princes of Tabal. Barnett points out that thc knob­
plate B7) to thc beginning of thc 8th-ccntury. bed brooch (fibula) is known to be Phrygian and
They differ in style but both figures, and particu­ that thc S-shaped car pendants of Urpallu recur at
larly that of Katuwas, resemble the north Syrian Ephesus. He also stresses that thc term ‘Phrygian
reliefs. art’ implies, perhaps, too much.
g^ Thurcau-Dangin and Dunand, Til Barsip, 102. We have noted that plants arc held by the p. m
plate i. This stela is dated by Barnett before 856 b.c. figures on thc funerary steles from Marash. Ears of
(1Carchcmish, in, 260). com arc carried by women in procession at Car­
86. Woolley, Carchemish, 11, plate B29(b). In chcmish (Woolley, Carchcmish, u, plates B20, B21).
Mesopotamia the creature belongs to thc wcather- 103. Ekrem Akurgal, Spathethitische Bildkunst,
god. plate xlviii(b)-L.
g7# Hogarth, Carchemish, 1, plate B 14(b). 104. Barnett, Journal of Hellenic Studies, LXVIII
88. Op. cit., plate Bio(a).
89. Op. at., plate Bis(a). cf. Frankfort, Cylinder Tliis Whole question hot been hot'iuoi by
Sidney Smith, 'The Gteek Tmdo«,“
Seals, plate xxxv(c).
90. Op. at., plate B12.
and others, Til Barsip,
91. Thurcau-Dangin
fro”
plate xi(3)-
Luschan, Ausgrabungen in Sendschirli,
92. Von
p. 184 258