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AX ANALYSIS OF THE 



It is certain, however, that the Gorgoneion is very ancient. We suspect that 

 the remarkable head from ISTebbi Yunas (Fig. 118), may have had an origin from the 

 Egyptian Phthah, the tongue being the onl}^ essential feature absent. A comparison 

 of the Greek face (Fig. 112) with that of the Assyrian reHc, points strongly 

 to the conclusion that it has been wrought under the same influence that gave shape 

 to the others ; but the absence of the protruding tongue prevents us from giving it 

 a place in the series. 



Fig. 118. (*) 



Assyrian, 



(2.) The Transverse Facial Line. With regard to the series of the transverse 

 facial line we present the following : 



Types of Full-faced Human Head, with Transverse Facial Lines. 

 Fig. 119. (t) Fig. 120. iX) Fig. 131. (§) 



gerated internal caiithus, is notably like the method of drawing this organ on Greek vessels. 



t Hope's Ant. Cost, (from Caylu.s, VI, I, 44.) The repetition of the malar line is here conspicuous, see p. 390 

 of this memoir. 



i Micali, I. c, pi. 41, Fig. 4. 



§ Birch, I. c, in British Museum. 



