Triangular head

A5q923.6, A5q939.9, A1.500, A1.486?) CK this list The figure with a triangular head has a single drill hole for the neck, a triangular torso ,and a very small waist. Hisarms and tapered sword are tubular.The carvingof the head and body are not flat but are full with rounded edges. However the forms have sharp angles which give the impression of the original material being wood or possibly clay. There is an extreme variation in size between the triangular man and the small figure to his left placed near his head and torso. This figure is more modeled in its body and its head is carved as a drill hole circle with a deep indentation in the center (in other words this head is the same style as the dotted eye style ???? or is it the opposite style because the dotted eye has a raised dot for the center and a depression all around it??? ck), giving the same effect of light and shadow as the human head from AK). The knees are indicated by a straight line across.

The heads of the birdman and the nude woman in the circus scene and its reverse (A5q835.3) are done in the style of the dot in the center and the empty space around. This is extreme in these two figures in the circus scene. Also contributing to this impression is the fact that the heads of these two figures, while stylized, are shown in front view’. In the case of the nude woman her whole figure is shown in front view- but the figure of the bird man is shown in profile and only the head is seen in front view. This front view is not is not well articulated as it has only the exterior line as a circle (or a slight oval) and a drill hole for the eye in the center of this circle, the caning of the drill hole is continued down to indicate the neck. The fact the circus scene is part of the overall Dotted Eye Style is confirmed by the carving of the two human figures in the scene; they have the same dotted eye and full bodies with undifferentiated volumes as the figures in the Inin Shadu scenes.

Notes on A1.500 carving style. Carving at right angles to the background and edge of top surface also at right angles; only possible trace of a drill hole at the neck

Deep Fringe Style [does this go to deep fringe?]

A5.135, Lyre-att, lyre-table

Comments on A5.135 Many times in this style the surface of the figure is flat (as in lion here). The characteristic deeply incised decoration on the edge is shown by the lion s mane caned along the upper edge of the figure. The fact that it is carved along the upper edge is only significant in that it was not seen by the seal cutter as a realistic design (and so to be shown also on the surface and lower edge of the figure) but as an edge pattern . This is also the case in the hair behind the leg of the caprid on the left. Some animals have full bodies as the pant lion on the left but here too a small portion of the lion’s mane with the characteristic deeply cut hair pattern on the edge is hinted at.