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530 JASPER LION-WEIGHT FROM TELL-EL-AMARNA
On an Assyrian cylinder' of much later date, where the lion's body '
seen in front of the bull and the whole rendering is freer than the usual
cylinder style, we see the bull in the course of being brought down head-
Fig. 478 a, b. Red Jasper Weight in shape of Harnessed Lion seizinc Bull :
Tell-ei.-Amarna.
Lion and
bull on
jasper
weight
from
Tell-el-
Aniarna.
long, but the lion still rests on the ground (Fig. 477). This cylinder belongs
to a time when Minoan influence was already reacting on Assyrian Art.
As a further illustration of the permanent conditions attaching to this
Oriental type may be cited an interesting little red jasper relief of a lion
and bull from Tell-el-Amarna, at one time erroneously claimed to be of
Minoan workmanship (Fig. 47S).2 The object is hollow below, and its
' true explanation has only been recently supplied by a parallel relic from Ras
Shamra," in the form of a stone lion-weight, the lead filling of which was still
preserved. In the above case the group of the two animals has been sub-
stituted for the traditional type of a single couchant lion. The Oriental class
to which therelief belongs must be regarded as clearly ascertained. At nrs
sight, indeed, the lion might perhaps be regarded as throwing" his full weigh
on the bull, but as a matter of fact, the bull is as much above the hon;
who grips its neck, as the latter is above the bull, and the whole ot
Hall revised his first impressions and su=Se*'e
a North-Syrian origin for it (p. 161). .
be observed that the Oriental source o ^
work is at any rate well defined by the ci.
ter of the lion's whiskers-visible on one
These go back to an early Sumenan tram
which, however, survived in Assyrian ■
kindly m|01"
the spots may be due to rugosities in the
bituminous clay of the impression.
1 Of haematite, in the Ashmolean Collection.
"- H. R. Hall, Oldest Civilization of Greece
(1901), p. 303 seqq. and Figs. 70, 71, by
Mr. F. Anderson, from which Figs. 478 a, b,
are reduced. In his later paper on A jasper
group of a /ion and bull fighting, from. El
'Amarnah, in the British Museum {Journ. of me of this discovery
Egypt. Arch. (XI)), 1925, p. 159 seqq., Dr.
3 Professor Sehaefef has
On an Assyrian cylinder' of much later date, where the lion's body '
seen in front of the bull and the whole rendering is freer than the usual
cylinder style, we see the bull in the course of being brought down head-
Fig. 478 a, b. Red Jasper Weight in shape of Harnessed Lion seizinc Bull :
Tell-ei.-Amarna.
Lion and
bull on
jasper
weight
from
Tell-el-
Aniarna.
long, but the lion still rests on the ground (Fig. 477). This cylinder belongs
to a time when Minoan influence was already reacting on Assyrian Art.
As a further illustration of the permanent conditions attaching to this
Oriental type may be cited an interesting little red jasper relief of a lion
and bull from Tell-el-Amarna, at one time erroneously claimed to be of
Minoan workmanship (Fig. 47S).2 The object is hollow below, and its
' true explanation has only been recently supplied by a parallel relic from Ras
Shamra," in the form of a stone lion-weight, the lead filling of which was still
preserved. In the above case the group of the two animals has been sub-
stituted for the traditional type of a single couchant lion. The Oriental class
to which therelief belongs must be regarded as clearly ascertained. At nrs
sight, indeed, the lion might perhaps be regarded as throwing" his full weigh
on the bull, but as a matter of fact, the bull is as much above the hon;
who grips its neck, as the latter is above the bull, and the whole ot
Hall revised his first impressions and su=Se*'e
a North-Syrian origin for it (p. 161). .
be observed that the Oriental source o ^
work is at any rate well defined by the ci.
ter of the lion's whiskers-visible on one
These go back to an early Sumenan tram
which, however, survived in Assyrian ■
kindly m|01"
the spots may be due to rugosities in the
bituminous clay of the impression.
1 Of haematite, in the Ashmolean Collection.
"- H. R. Hall, Oldest Civilization of Greece
(1901), p. 303 seqq. and Figs. 70, 71, by
Mr. F. Anderson, from which Figs. 478 a, b,
are reduced. In his later paper on A jasper
group of a /ion and bull fighting, from. El
'Amarnah, in the British Museum {Journ. of me of this discovery
Egypt. Arch. (XI)), 1925, p. 159 seqq., Dr.
3 Professor Sehaefef has