134 Remains of Greek Sculpture in Potowar. [Feb. 



The head upon the waterspout seems to me to have been human, and 

 had it not been so, it might have escaped mutilation. The cheeks are 

 full and smooth, and although upon this sketch the peculiar perspec- 

 tive of the fracture gives the idea of a ram's head, there is no such 

 resemblance in the original. My people pronounced it a lion, which the 

 paws and the fulness of the checks justified. But I think any Euro- 

 pean would recognise it as human ; the head of a Jupiter Ammon. 



The horned, human head, (Fig. 1, PI. IV.) is manifestly Osiris as 

 Ammon The face is almost as smooth as that of the female head, but not 

 so decidedly feminine. The rings in the horns are not delineated, — every 

 thing nervous is excluded. The very horns are effeminate, and a chaplet 

 of roses forms the setting. We must bear in mind, that it formed a 

 mere ornament to the entrance of the temple similar to those in Plate 

 II. The query is whether a temple to Osiris Ammon would be ex- 

 ternally decorated with figures of the presiding Divinity, or whether that 

 Divinity was not rather the old and sterner Jupiter Ammon of the de- 

 sert ? In this case the female head may have belonged to a companion 

 of the Deity, or to a subordinate. The summit of the female's cap is 

 pierced, rendering it probable that it was a caryatid. 



Amongst the true lotos flowers (Fig. 3, PI. IV.) will be observed a fir 

 apple, one of the Bacchic emblems ; but I have vainly endeavored to 

 discover anything that can be pronounced either vine leaf or ivy. 



Considering the foundation of this Indo-Greek kingdom by Alexan- 

 der : the love and enthusiasm of his followers, his untimely death and 

 his politic assumption of Divine rites as the son of Ammon ; it is not 

 improbable that temples to Alexander Ammon may have been erected 

 upon the theatre of his exploits, and if so, this is certainly one of them. 

 Such temples would want the emblem distinctive of Bacchus, viz. the 

 vine ; and ivy might be excluded for the same reason. But this would 

 exhibit the emblems of the lands of his conquest, the lotas for Egypt 

 and India, the caryatides of Tartary : and the figure of Osiris Ammon 

 might be introduced as subordinate to the conqueror. 



I write at great disadvantage so many hundreds of miles from any 

 books of reference, and with a memory almost unrefreshed by study 

 during five and twenty years. It is possible, therefore, that further 

 research may modify some of the theories. But, that the thread of 

 connection between the architecture of Rajpootana, and that of Greece, 



