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Title: Report on the investigations at Assos, 1882, 1883, pt. I
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Clarke, Joseph Thacher
Subjects: Assos (Extinct city)
Publisher: New York : The Macmillan co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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found by Calvert in various parts of the Troad.Among these the most striking parallel to the figures ofthe Assos reliefs is the sphinx painted on a sherd found 1 Loschckc (Gcox^, Dreifussvase aus Tanap-a, in the Archdologischc Zcitung,Berlin, 1881. - Schliemann, Ilios, figs. 1432 and 1434. The former of these now bears thenumber 2379 in the collection at Berlin. ^ SchViemcLnn, Trojcimsc^e Al/cr/Ziiimer. Atlas. Leipzig, 1S74, no. 3362. Thisfigurine is now numbered 2433 ^^^ collection at Berlin. l82 ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE. upon the ancient site of Ophrynion^ (Fig. 43). The figurehere shown might almost pass as a direct copy of the couch-ing sphinxes of the Assian reliefs, so close is the resem-blance. We may notice the same fillet-bound hair, falling ina convex curve, the same bordering tainia, the same wingsbent forward at the ends, and membered by a rib at the con-ventionalized juncture between flesh and feathers, the samedoubly curved turn of the tail, and, in particular, the same
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Fig. 43. Couching Sphinx on Sherd from Ophrynion. excessive emphasis of the rising curve of the belly, whichalong its entire length is arched above the ground in exagger-ation of the natural appearance of recumbent animals. Thepainting upon this sherd is mainly dark brown upon a lightred ground, the pigment being applied very thinly. Anothercolor makes its appearance in the fleshy part of the wing,between neck and wing feathers, this being of a dull deepred, similar to dragons blood. The length of the sherdis 15 cm. 1 Near Erenkieui, between the sites of Troy and Abydos. Compare Virchow,Alt-Trojatiische Griibcr und Schddel. Berlin, 1882. INVESTIGATIONS AT ASSOS, 1883. 83 ^■: A resemblance nearly as close is observable between thesquatting sphinx of one of the metopes of the Assos temple,before referred to, and a figurine from Aqkieui, identified byCalvert as the site of Berytis (Fig. 44). This small image,II cm. high, is formed of a light red clay, hollowed within,and primed with a

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