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two concentrical circles with a little (peeping-)hole in the centre, and that the
whole face and the covering of the head were so much broader proportionally
to the breadth of the body than in the other statues. (A somewhat similar
head was found on the heavily injured statue at the mound 5.) The
head-cover may be considered to exhibit the form of a helmet; this reached
to the shoulders at both sides, hiding the ears completely; but nearly at
the place of the ears there was on each side a shallow circular depression
with a small excavation, probably representing a hole, in the centre. From
the lower part of the helmet a thick elevation, grooved length-wise in front,
came down over the chest. It may be regarded as representing a
breast-amour, or possibly a beard. From the face itself, below the nose, a piece of
the same shape as the just described elevation was seen to descend, but it
was-of much smaller dimensions. The left shoulder with the bent arm was somewhat
more raised than the right. Both shoulders were uncommorely large and broad,
so that the artist almost seems to have intended to indicate the blade-bone.
The arms were pressed close to the body, disproportionately narrow when
viewed trom the front, but more than sufficiently broad when viewed from
the side. On its left bent fore-arm the statue held a little round shield, at
the anterior margin of which the hand projected, showing, unusually enough,
the thumb of the same length with the index. The chest and abdomen were
sculptured with some signs of muscles. The legs were short and thick, the
feet clumsy, with no traces of toes. The image stood on a pedestal, the
upper part of which showed a deep cavetto. The pedestal was deeply immersed
into the ground. Immediately above the helmet was the square tenon. The
length of the statue from the upper edge of the tenon to the upper edge of
the pedestal was 207 cm. The breadth across the shoulders was 57 cm.,
that of the head 36 cm. The statue was on the whole well preserved, and
stood, no doubt, in its original situation.
As it seems to be beyond a doubt that the above described statues, which
were found standing more or less erect, and at almost equal distances, nearly
five meters from one another, remained in the situations where they had been
originally placed, it cannot be considered too bold, to suppose that we have
here before us an ancient temple exhibiting an example of how such a building
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