Identifier: opencourt_apr1906caru (find matches)
Title: The Open court
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Carus, Paul, 1852-1919 Open Court Publishing company, Chicago
Subjects: Religion Religion and science
Publisher: Chicago : The Open Court Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Morris Library, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Digitizing Sponsor: CARLI: Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois

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TRENCH WHERE THE STATUE WAS DISCOVERED. 445o It was found in the foreground, while the head lay at the foot ofthe projection at the further end of the trench. lay in fragments at its side. Search at the time failed to revealthe head; however, a month later, it was found at the opposite endof the trench about thirty yards away. 214 THE OPEN COURT. With the exception of places where an incrustation of saltpeterhad formed, especially upon the head, the statue was perfectly pre-served. It stands seventy-eight centimeters high; the measurementabout the shoulders is sixty-four, and around the bottom of theskirt eighty-one centimeters. The feet are imbedded in the pedestalfor strength. The lower half of the body is covered with an em-broidered skirt of six folds, held together by a strap fastened be-hind : the upper part is nude. The arms are free from the body attiie elbows, and the hands are clasped in front. Upon the right
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SIMLI \M) \ \SI S J RO.M BLSMYA. upper arm is an inscription of three lines. The head and the face areboth shaved; the almond-shaped eyes are represented by holes orsockets into which eyeballs of another material, probably of ivory,were inserted, and the nose forms nearly a straight line with theforehead. In general the statue, if proportionately short and stout,is well formed ; the shoulders and back, and especially the feet, areremarkably well shaped. The three lines of writing upon the right upper arm are of so THE STATUE OF KING DAVID. antiquated a form that when the statue was first discovered I wasunable to recognize the characters, especially of the third line, inwhich, as sometimes happens in the very earliest inscriptions, thesigns run together as if forming a single character. However, the

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