(Fig. 216). Around thema mountainous country is figured in relief, and sprinkled withtrees and stags engraved with the point. The wide border, whichis unfortunately very much mutilated, is covered with groupsof figures apparently copied from some Egyptian monument,if we may judge from the attitudes… … Fig. 216.—Part of a bronze cup or platter. Diameter about 9 inches. British Museum. are so familiar. A goddess, who might be Isis, stands oppositeto him. In another part of the border there is a misshapenmonster crowned with feathers and resembling the EgyptianBes.1 Side by side with these platters…
Hittites · Art · Jews
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