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68 NATURAL HISTORY
my mind, equally clear, though in this instance we do not know that Crete
played the part of intermediary. Fig. 13, showing lions from two Hittite
reliefs, should be compared with Protocorinthian work such as the Bellero-
phon kotyle, pi. 4, 1-2, or with the fragments illustrated in pi. 6.1 Other
a b
Fig. 13. Lions from Hittite reliefs (cf. Hogarth, Carchemish i, pis. bio, bii).
a b
Fig. 14. a, from an Assyrian relief (cf. Hall, Babylonian and Assyrian Sculpture
pi. 18.); b, from the aryballos no. 600 (cf. pis. 18-19).
Protocorinthian lions seem to reflect the influence of the static type which
is usual in Hittite round-sculpture.2 These Hittite works are of course
many centuries earlier than their Protocorinthian derivatives; but the resem-
blances between them and early Greek types from Ionia, Crete, Cyprus, and
Corinth prove that the tradition revived, no doubt through the survival of
actual Hittite monuments.
1 In addition to the remarkable general resemblance that of pi. i, 7; the 'mane,' fig. 13 b, with that
in the conception of the animal, there are certain of the lion on the right in the uppermost frieze of pi.
close correspondences of details: cf. for instance the 9, 1.
renderingof thepawsseen in fig. 13 a with that of pis. 2 Cf., for instance, Johansen pi. 24, 3 and pi. 36,1
4,3 ; 5; the curved line on the cheek in fig. 13 a with with Sendschirli pi. 57, &c.; Syria, ii, 20 ff.
my mind, equally clear, though in this instance we do not know that Crete
played the part of intermediary. Fig. 13, showing lions from two Hittite
reliefs, should be compared with Protocorinthian work such as the Bellero-
phon kotyle, pi. 4, 1-2, or with the fragments illustrated in pi. 6.1 Other
a b
Fig. 13. Lions from Hittite reliefs (cf. Hogarth, Carchemish i, pis. bio, bii).
a b
Fig. 14. a, from an Assyrian relief (cf. Hall, Babylonian and Assyrian Sculpture
pi. 18.); b, from the aryballos no. 600 (cf. pis. 18-19).
Protocorinthian lions seem to reflect the influence of the static type which
is usual in Hittite round-sculpture.2 These Hittite works are of course
many centuries earlier than their Protocorinthian derivatives; but the resem-
blances between them and early Greek types from Ionia, Crete, Cyprus, and
Corinth prove that the tradition revived, no doubt through the survival of
actual Hittite monuments.
1 In addition to the remarkable general resemblance that of pi. i, 7; the 'mane,' fig. 13 b, with that
in the conception of the animal, there are certain of the lion on the right in the uppermost frieze of pi.
close correspondences of details: cf. for instance the 9, 1.
renderingof thepawsseen in fig. 13 a with that of pis. 2 Cf., for instance, Johansen pi. 24, 3 and pi. 36,1
4,3 ; 5; the curved line on the cheek in fig. 13 a with with Sendschirli pi. 57, &c.; Syria, ii, 20 ff.