184/.] On a Sculpture from the site of Bucephalia. 665 



of a temple to Kam Deo or Cupid. The building, a recent obelisk, 

 had fallen in, and the supposed statue of the deity had been removed 

 into a modern Seebwala or Temple of Seeb close by, this temple 

 being a facsimile of the most modern of the Mohammadan Tombs. 



The figure is about 2 feet high, carved upon a dark stone (lime appa- 

 rently) and in good preservation. — A sketch is enclosed. I was imme- 

 diately struck with the outline of the club, as precisely similar to the 

 club of the Grecian Hercules and entirely different from the mace of 

 Hunnoomaun or the club of Hurr, the Indian Hercules. Its figure is 

 graceful and the knots represent exactly in three touches of the 

 chisel the stumps of branches roughly lopped away. All the rest of 

 the figure appears to me rather Egyptian than Hindoo. The thick 

 under lip, the teeth developed, the heavy ringlets falling upon either 

 shoulder, the precision with which the perspective is preserved, and the 

 minute development of every joint and member, so that even the fin^ 

 ger nails are correctly chiselled. Unfortunately the head is broken away 

 above the mouth ; but from the impression left upon the stone it must 

 have been unusually high. It appears to me to be a figure of Osiris in 

 the joint capacity of Bacchus and Hercules. But, whatever it be, it 

 is the indubitable original of the figures of Hunnoomaun, so common 

 in upper India ; that is, the peculiar bend of the body in this statue 

 has been copied in the rude representations of the Monkey-God. The 

 only drapery is the Hindoo dhotie, well and deeply cut. The most per- 

 plexing circumstance is the presence of the Junnoo or sacred thread worn 

 by Brahmuns and Rajpootres. This is beautifully chiselled, but I was 

 not aware that it was in use amongst the Egyptians. If not, it may have 

 been added when their descendants had become naturalised in India. 

 You are aware that there is a city upon the Indus bearing the name of 

 Bacchus Lyah, and that Alexander met with the descendants of his 

 followers upon that river. Although the club is so decided a fac- 

 simile of that of the Grecian Hercules, there is nothing else in the 

 figure breathing of the Grecian chisel. The muscles are not developed. 

 The hero has not been elevated by art into the character of a demi-god, 

 but remains a clumsy mortal, and appears to be an imitation of the 

 original, carried to a minuteness which distinguished the Egyptians, 

 but which I have never observed in Hindoo sculpture. The left arm 

 had been broken away so that I am uncertain whether the second left 



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