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hand, now wanting. Both figures stand on plinths, and a
support, not needed for the relief but copied from a statue
in the round, connects the end of the cornucopia with
the thigh of Isis. The relief is bounded by two pilasters,
surmounted by a low pediment, containing a circular
ornament, and with acroteria.
(b) On the opposite side is a rocky cave on a mountain
side. Within it is an object, nearly obliterated, which was
perhaps a phallus; a stork is pecking at it, and a dog (fore-
part missing) seems to have been represented as barking
at it. An Asiatic warrior draws a bow at it. He wears
jacket, trousers, shoes, and Persian cap, and a quiver. A
boar half issues from a cave. In the field are other animals,
namely, a fox or jackal (Mickaelis), locust, lizard, cicada (?),
a large bird (wing only preserved), and the hind quarters of
a bull moving to the left. If the obliterated object was a
phallus, it was doubtless intended as a protection against
the evil eye. It would seem that, by a confusion of ideas,
the animals which are sometimes represented as attacking
the eye, are here attacking the apotropaion (see Michaelis).
Xanthos. ' Disinterred on the Eoman Acropolis, in Jan.,
1844' (Scharf; see Michaelis).
Xanthian limestone ; width, 2 feet 6£ inches ; height of a, 1 foot
10£ inches; of b, 2 feet 10 inches. Synopsis, Lycian Room,
No. 173; Michaelis, Joum. of Hellen. Studies, VI., p. 287, pi. 58.
Mansell, No. 865 (a only).
957. (a) Part of the body of a large sarcophagus, including
one end and the back.
On the right end is part of a scene of combat. A
youthful warrior mounted, to the right, who wears a
helmet and chlamys, with a shield on the left arm, struck
with the right arm, now missing, at a standing figure,
who wears helmet and chlamys, and has a sword in his
raised right hand. Below is the head of a horse, and a
nude dead figure. On the left is part of a horse rearing,
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hand, now wanting. Both figures stand on plinths, and a
support, not needed for the relief but copied from a statue
in the round, connects the end of the cornucopia with
the thigh of Isis. The relief is bounded by two pilasters,
surmounted by a low pediment, containing a circular
ornament, and with acroteria.
(b) On the opposite side is a rocky cave on a mountain
side. Within it is an object, nearly obliterated, which was
perhaps a phallus; a stork is pecking at it, and a dog (fore-
part missing) seems to have been represented as barking
at it. An Asiatic warrior draws a bow at it. He wears
jacket, trousers, shoes, and Persian cap, and a quiver. A
boar half issues from a cave. In the field are other animals,
namely, a fox or jackal (Mickaelis), locust, lizard, cicada (?),
a large bird (wing only preserved), and the hind quarters of
a bull moving to the left. If the obliterated object was a
phallus, it was doubtless intended as a protection against
the evil eye. It would seem that, by a confusion of ideas,
the animals which are sometimes represented as attacking
the eye, are here attacking the apotropaion (see Michaelis).
Xanthos. ' Disinterred on the Eoman Acropolis, in Jan.,
1844' (Scharf; see Michaelis).
Xanthian limestone ; width, 2 feet 6£ inches ; height of a, 1 foot
10£ inches; of b, 2 feet 10 inches. Synopsis, Lycian Room,
No. 173; Michaelis, Joum. of Hellen. Studies, VI., p. 287, pi. 58.
Mansell, No. 865 (a only).
957. (a) Part of the body of a large sarcophagus, including
one end and the back.
On the right end is part of a scene of combat. A
youthful warrior mounted, to the right, who wears a
helmet and chlamys, with a shield on the left arm, struck
with the right arm, now missing, at a standing figure,
who wears helmet and chlamys, and has a sword in his
raised right hand. Below is the head of a horse, and a
nude dead figure. On the left is part of a horse rearing,