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II. A. ι. Ammonitis.
high relief; in the background, in lower relief, stand two female figures, and, in the
middle, above the rider, the gorgon’s head. The work is highly finished, and, so far
as I could judge in an uncertain light, the proportions and grouping were very beautiful.
The horse and rider are almost in the round, and the rider was perfectly preserved
except the head which was missing. At the western end of the town, on the south
side of the stream, Dr. Littmann found a small relief built into the wall of a modern
house. It represents a bust of Zeus Ammon, with the ram’s horns, and appears to
have been well executed (Ill. 41). From the shape of the frame which surrounds the
bust, one might conjecture that the relief once adorned the end of a sarcophagus cover.
Ill. 41. Relief found in cAmman.
Ill. 42.
Small altars, 1.20 to 1.40 m. high, are found in many places, built into walls or
lying beside the streets. They are, for the most part, of the design shown in Ill. 42,
with the usual base, die and cap, surmounted by four high “horns” at the angles, and
a sort of secondary small altar in the middle with a flat segment of sphere raised on
top of it. The altar from which the drawing was made was partly embedded in a wall
of masonry; so that the inscription on one side was completely hidden but for tMO
letters, a Δ and a Γ at the extreme left. Dr. Littmann found other altars with inscrip-
tions 1 upon them, one of which had been recently excavated by the natives.
1 Div. Ill, sec. A, inscs. I, 2, 12.
II. A. ι. Ammonitis.
high relief; in the background, in lower relief, stand two female figures, and, in the
middle, above the rider, the gorgon’s head. The work is highly finished, and, so far
as I could judge in an uncertain light, the proportions and grouping were very beautiful.
The horse and rider are almost in the round, and the rider was perfectly preserved
except the head which was missing. At the western end of the town, on the south
side of the stream, Dr. Littmann found a small relief built into the wall of a modern
house. It represents a bust of Zeus Ammon, with the ram’s horns, and appears to
have been well executed (Ill. 41). From the shape of the frame which surrounds the
bust, one might conjecture that the relief once adorned the end of a sarcophagus cover.
Ill. 41. Relief found in cAmman.
Ill. 42.
Small altars, 1.20 to 1.40 m. high, are found in many places, built into walls or
lying beside the streets. They are, for the most part, of the design shown in Ill. 42,
with the usual base, die and cap, surmounted by four high “horns” at the angles, and
a sort of secondary small altar in the middle with a flat segment of sphere raised on
top of it. The altar from which the drawing was made was partly embedded in a wall
of masonry; so that the inscription on one side was completely hidden but for tMO
letters, a Δ and a Γ at the extreme left. Dr. Littmann found other altars with inscrip-
tions 1 upon them, one of which had been recently excavated by the natives.
1 Div. Ill, sec. A, inscs. I, 2, 12.