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Dr. Hoernle —Antiquities f rom Central Asia. [Extra Xo. 1, 
Plate XI. 
This Plate shows a number of heads and busts, male and female. 
They are all made in the round, and cannot, therefore, have been intended 
to decorate vessels, like the faces or masks, shown in Plate X ; but 
whether any belonged to full figures, and what use they subserved is, 
in many cases, not apparent. In the case of No. 16, the head is fixed, 
with a wooden peg, on a small decorated pedestal, and the whole seems 
to have formed a kind of knickknack, 2|- inches high. A similar pedestal, 
found separately, is shown in Plate XIII, No. 8 (also in Plate IV, No. 13, 
of Part I) ; and this fact proves that such “ knickknacks ” were not 
uncommon. But other heads and busts or half-figures can hardly be 
explained in this way. On the other hand, fragments of arms or legs 
or trunks—such as one would expect to find, if any of the surviving 
fragments belonged to full figures—there are none in the collection, and 
they do not appear to be found. The large head, shown as No. 1, which 
is hollow, with a round aperture on the top and in the neck, may have 
formed the neck of a vessel, like some archaic vases found in Cyprus, 
Rhodes and other places, and figured in Plate LXXXV of Louis Palma 
di Cesnola’s Cypern (tr. by Ludw. Stern). 
All these figures were made in two halves, front and back, in 
separate moulds, and were afterwards joined together before baking. 
Some, like Xos. 1, 5, 10, 12 are made hollow ; but most of the smaller 
ones are solid; e.g ., Xos. 3, 7, 8, 9, 13-21. The head was sometimes 
made separately, and provided with a socket bolt (as seen in Xos. 8, 19) 
with which it was fixed in an aperture between the shoulders. The 
heads of the busts, Xos. 14 and 15, are fixed in this manner. There was 
a great variety in the fashion of arranging the hair, of both men and 
women ; also in dressing the beard. The coiffure of men is illustrated 
by Xos. 1-14; of women, by Xos. 15-21, and 23-26. Xo. 22 shows a 
man and woman in embrace ; compare their head-dress with those in 
Xos. 9 and 19. Some male heads approach closely the female type, as 
in Xo. 4. Others, as in Xos. 5 and 14, show a sectarian mark, in real life 
probably painted, on the forehead. On the other hand, Xo. 13 seems to 
indicate tattoo marks in the form of dotted circles, or they may be in¬ 
tended to indicate hair, as in Xos. 5 and 12. Xo. 14 shows a man wearing 
an amulet, suspended from his neck ; but it is not clear what the object 
may be which he is holding on his back. Xos. 15, 16, 17 show different 
styles of female coiffure from the front and back. Xos. 18-21, 23, 24, 
give the front view, and Xos. 25, 26, the back view of some others. 
Xos. 15 and 18 also show the upper portion of different fashions of 
female dress. Xo. 22 shows the head-covering, and jewelry (bracelet, 
armlet, necklet, etc.), worn by men and women. 
