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We propose to trace in the following order a few of the variants of the face. 

 Many of them that relate to expression are found in the best examples of Greek and 

 Roman art, as well as in a few specimens of Aztec carving. 



(a.) THE FULL-FACE. 



(1.) The Gorgoneion. The radical of this series would appear to have no 

 connection with the figures placed after it ; yet we have ventured to hold as 

 the ultimate the figure from which it is the probable abridgment, — the head of 

 Phthah. In the absence of a corroborating prompter in history, these figures would 

 teach us that the Gorgoneion was common to Egypt, Greece and Etruria. The 

 symmetrical curved ornament at the lower portion of Figures 110-112, and the head- 

 dress of Figure 113, are derived from the skin of the head and fore-feet of the lion. 

 Can we go farther and trace from these derivatives the tongue-protruding heads of 

 the Gothic style, or the Buddhistic Sinhas? It is difficult to answer these questions 

 satisfiictorily in the absence of all connecting links. More especially since we have 

 no proof that they may not have originated in other countries. The ISTew Zea- 

 lander* carves a head with a lolling tongue on his temple column ; the Aztecsf 

 have repeated the same figure in stone. 



Fig. 110. (t) 



Fig;. Ill 



See also Fig. 126. 



Fig. 113. (II) 



113. (t) 



Etinscan. 



Fig. 114. (**) 



Etruscan. 



Fig. 115. m 



Greek. 



Fig. 116. iXX) 



Etruscan. 

 Fig. 117. (§§) 



Etruscan. 



Greek. 



Greek. 



Egyptian (Phtliali). 



* Natural History of Man, Wood, II, 180. 



t Waldeck, I. c. ; Squier, 1. c, I, 204 and 313 ; figure in centre of Mexican Zodiac, 

 t Micali, I. c, pi. 46, Fig. 24. § Micali, I. c, pi. 102, Fig. 10. | Hamilton, Vases, I. c, III, 60. 

 1 Micali, I. c, pi. 22. ** Dennis, Etruria, I. c, II, 244. +t Hope's Ancient Costumes, 225. 



Xt Handbook of Archaeology, Westropp, 126. The tongue has been by an oversight omitted. 



