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those painted upon the temple wall is very marked. The same con- 
ventional treatment is to be observed in both. The huge head, the 
small body and limbs, the elaborate headdress, the large round ear- 
rings, and highly ornate sandals are the same; and in two of the clay 
images, figures 1 and 3, plate xxxi1, monstrous heads similar to those 
worn by the figures on the stucco are worn as ornaments in front of the 
headdresses. Figure 2, plate xxxiv, represents the lower part of the 
face of one of these clay idols. If it be compared with the head of fig- 
ure 1, plate xxx1, and with the head held in the left hand of figure 3, 
plate xxx1, both from the wall, it will be seen that the beard and mus- 
tache are treated in the same conventional manner in each, In figure 
1, plate xxx1u1, the curious ornament below the left eye of the face in the 
idol’s headdress is the same as that below the eye of figure 8, plate xxx. 
Again, the ornament held in the hand of figure 1, plate xxx, is precisely 
similar to one dug up with figure 2, plate xxxu. These instances of 
correspondence in detail are very numerous, but enough has been 
cited to show that it is impossible to look upon the resemblance 
between the clay figures and the painted stucco as fortuitous. We 
must, on the contrary, regard them as the work of the same people. 
It is of interest to note here that the monster’s face which decorates 
the headdress of figure 3, plate xxxu, is the counterpart of a face 
found at Quirigua, and described at some length by Mr Diesseldorf.* 
There is also a close resemblance in coloring, ornamentation, and gen- 
eral style between the painted stucco and the painted pottery animals. 
The same colors are used and the same fine black lines are employed 
for outlining in each case. If figures 3, 4, and 7, of plate xxxty, be 
compared with the snakes’ heads seen to the right of figure 8, plate xxx, 
and with the snake’s head below figure 9, plate xxrx, it will be seen that 
exactly the same ornament is placed both above and below the eye in 
each case. The central part of mound 2, from which some of these 
animals came, was constructed almost entirely of large blocks of lime- 
stone, and on some of these, which were squared, traces of painted 
stucco were still visible, similar to that found on some of the stones 
which formed the mound around the painted wall and no doubt hay- 
ing the same origin, i. e., the broken down south wall of the building. 
Mound 2 had also been erected over a building, and it was on its 
floor that the umm and animals had been placed when the top was 
added to the mound. Furthermore, if the painted walls of the temple 
had been wantonly destroyed by an enemy, or by some barbarous 
tribe coming down from the north, the destruction would have been 
complete; nor would they have taken such care, as we have seen was 
taken, to preserve the greater part of the painting by erecting a mound 
around it. 
1See Aus den Verhandlungen der Berliner Anthropologischen Gesellschaft. Ordentliche Sitzung 
vom 2lten Dec., 1895. 
