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anterior part of the head and the cheeks were carved with softness and
elegance. Behind the head of the human figure the head of the vulture was united
to its support by a snailshaped spiral (volute) with wide aperture. Although the
kneeling male figure was not perhaps so well worked as the image H, yet it
was well balanced, and of an easy posture. The forehead was straight, the
nose slightly curved, the mouth closed, the lower lip thin, prominent; the
cheeks were rather thin, the ears disproportionately large, and placed too far
backwards. The neck was long, the Adam’s apple was indicated on the throat.
The chest was rather little developed, the shoulders and upper arms vigorous,
the hands pressed against the sides of the legs. The male organ was placed
high up on the abdomen. The legs below the knees were of equal thickness
throughout, without an}’ trace of muscles, smoothly rounded backwards, without
feet. The pedestal being broken, the statue was thrown down in the middle
ot the «plaza», the open place or square between the mounds 1, 2, 3 and 4.
The length of the vulture’s head from the anterior edge of the beak to
the posterior edge of the process at the back of the head was ioo cm.,
the height of the head from the top to the inferior edge of the lower jaw
37 cm. The whole length of the statue from the upper edge ol the
tenonshaped projection to the upper edge of the pedestal was 154 cm. The upper
part of the pedestal formed a square plinth, on which the human figure was
kneeling.
PI. 13.
Male, sitting figure, with its head strongly bent forward, supporting on
its shoulders and the back of its head the large head of an animal, which was
possibly meant to represent the head ol a tortoise or a lizard. This head
was rather little elaborated, evenly rounded above, having in front a round,
beak-shaped mouth. A circular cavity before and over the posterior corner
of the mouth represented the eye. At the back this head carried two high,
rectangular, double plates, which may possibly be regarded as representing
the beginning of the back armour of the tortoise, or perhaps the scales of
a lizard or a serpent. The human figure was very well elaborated; next to the
figure A it was certainly, from an artistic point of view, the most carefully
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