 Click Photo for Larger Version
|
Image ToolbarPlease read before you download
Images and/or text from holylandphotos.org are NOT TO BE USED ON OTHER WEB SITES, NOR COMMERCIALLY, without special permission. To request permission contact us at holylandphotos@gmail.com. |
A limestone and a partial basalt orthostat from Carchemish depicting 3 and 1/2 foot soldiers (infantrymen). They are depicted in short, above-the-knee, kilts with waistbands, and shoulders covered. They carry spears in their right hands and have shields slung over their backs. On their helmets (the ones better preserved) there are high, decorative, combs. It looks like the basalt orthostat on the right did not weather as much as the limestone one—this is generally true for all of the preserved othostats.
The unfinished areas in the lower right, are due to the fact that a pedestal supporting a statue was there when the orthostats were carved.
The orthostats are about 3.5 feet high and date to the Neo-Hittite Period (ca. 900-717 BC).
