Notebook

Notebook, 1993-

[From: Woolley, Leonard. The Art of The Middle East, including Persia, Mesopotamia and Palestine. New York: Crown Publishers. 1961.]

1.Geography and History --- 2.Elam --- 3.Sumer --- 4.Sumer and Akkad --- 5.Syria & Palestine --- 6.Hurri & Hittites --- 7.Anatolia

The Art of The Middle East - Including
Persia, Mesopotamia and Palestine

Chapter Six [Notes]

The Hurri and The Hittites

1. H. Frankfort, "The Origin of the Bît Hilani", Iraq, XIV, p. 120 [1952], omits to mention the second storey. At Carchemish the portico is really a porch and no more, and the staircase lies behind the main room.

2. The female sphinx appears in Egypt for the first time in the reign of Hatshepsut.

3. The possibly imitative axes from Luristan are of much later date; moreover, none of these has the god's head implying a cult figure, and the mere association of lion and weapon is but a piece of natural symbolism.

4. It is perhaps worth recording that the Arab workmen employed on the excavations recognised this latent force and were terrified of the figure. This accounts for its subsequent destruction.

5. In the Carchemish excavations it was often found necessary to apply a coat of fine mud to the face of the slab and then rub it down until the surface of the stone was reached and mud left only in the hollows: only so could a good photograph be obtained.


[Woolley, Leonard. The Art of The Middle East, including Persia, Mesopotamia and Palestine. New York: Crown Publishers. 1961.]




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