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NEW CHRYSELEPHANTINE FIGURE OF BOY-GOD 471
flat-footed instead of on tiptoe, must in both cases be added the base-
here a truncated wedge, traversed laterally by a perforation (see Fig. 394, a).
Only one arm was preserved, of which the attachment is broken
away, and the outer margin of the right leg is wanting
from the hip to a little below-the knee, while the toes are
-, deficient. Otherwise, except for a slight flaking away of
the lower bridge of the nose, the figure is quite perfect.
The surface of the ivory is for the most part dark brown
in its present state—possibly owing to contact with the
decayed wood of a casket—and this led the original
owner to suppose that the actual material was wood.
Although there is really only half a centimetre Compari-
difference in the actual height, the size of the earlier ^""i™,
published boy-Gocl—placed here for comparison (Fig. discover-
' ,„ , ' ' ,-, -, . / , , , V ° ed figure.
393)—has the appearance 01 being considerably larger.
This, apart from the tiara, was about 13 centimetres
from the heel to the crown of the head, while the
Fig. 395. Section or . • .
New Ivory Figure- new statuette is 12-5 cm. But the proportions of the
a,through Chest; b, body in the case of the former figure were distinctly
Waist : c, through . „,, . , ,,,..,
Buttocks I1). larger. I he girth round the loins oi the present speci-
men when perfect was about 6 centimetres, that of the
other 8-4. The greater bulk in the latter case seems to be mainly due to the
attempt to reproduce the fuller forms of childhood. In the present instance
we have the more compact figure of a youth of about the age of puberty.
Three sections are here given in Fig. 395. a, round the chest, where
the diameter—21 millimetres under the arm-pits—contrasts with 24 in the
case of the former figurine. 11, the waist, where the horizontal diameter is
13 mm. compared with 12 mm. in the other, c, round the buttocks, the
diameter being 21 millimetres, not much more than two-thirds of that—
29 mm.—attained by the boy-God, Fig. 393.
The muscles of the stripling that we have here before us, are firmer, Ofsome-
what
especially those of the back (see Fig. 396). The harder set features and maturer
shorter hair must also be taken to indicate a youthful personage some- "^
what more advanced in years than the boy-God already illustrated.
Views of the image, without its gold plate and giving a better idea of
the physical forms and drapery, are given in Fig. 396 and Suppl. PL LI 11 b, c.
It will be seen that it is the embodiment of a boy about to reach the stage of
puberty, rather than of one but little beyond the borders of infancy. Its back,
enlarged by a third in Fig. 396, gives a good idea of the shapely forms.
flat-footed instead of on tiptoe, must in both cases be added the base-
here a truncated wedge, traversed laterally by a perforation (see Fig. 394, a).
Only one arm was preserved, of which the attachment is broken
away, and the outer margin of the right leg is wanting
from the hip to a little below-the knee, while the toes are
-, deficient. Otherwise, except for a slight flaking away of
the lower bridge of the nose, the figure is quite perfect.
The surface of the ivory is for the most part dark brown
in its present state—possibly owing to contact with the
decayed wood of a casket—and this led the original
owner to suppose that the actual material was wood.
Although there is really only half a centimetre Compari-
difference in the actual height, the size of the earlier ^""i™,
published boy-Gocl—placed here for comparison (Fig. discover-
' ,„ , ' ' ,-, -, . / , , , V ° ed figure.
393)—has the appearance 01 being considerably larger.
This, apart from the tiara, was about 13 centimetres
from the heel to the crown of the head, while the
Fig. 395. Section or . • .
New Ivory Figure- new statuette is 12-5 cm. But the proportions of the
a,through Chest; b, body in the case of the former figure were distinctly
Waist : c, through . „,, . , ,,,..,
Buttocks I1). larger. I he girth round the loins oi the present speci-
men when perfect was about 6 centimetres, that of the
other 8-4. The greater bulk in the latter case seems to be mainly due to the
attempt to reproduce the fuller forms of childhood. In the present instance
we have the more compact figure of a youth of about the age of puberty.
Three sections are here given in Fig. 395. a, round the chest, where
the diameter—21 millimetres under the arm-pits—contrasts with 24 in the
case of the former figurine. 11, the waist, where the horizontal diameter is
13 mm. compared with 12 mm. in the other, c, round the buttocks, the
diameter being 21 millimetres, not much more than two-thirds of that—
29 mm.—attained by the boy-God, Fig. 393.
The muscles of the stripling that we have here before us, are firmer, Ofsome-
what
especially those of the back (see Fig. 396). The harder set features and maturer
shorter hair must also be taken to indicate a youthful personage some- "^
what more advanced in years than the boy-God already illustrated.
Views of the image, without its gold plate and giving a better idea of
the physical forms and drapery, are given in Fig. 396 and Suppl. PL LI 11 b, c.
It will be seen that it is the embodiment of a boy about to reach the stage of
puberty, rather than of one but little beyond the borders of infancy. Its back,
enlarged by a third in Fig. 396, gives a good idea of the shapely forms.