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[[underlined]] Chapter VII. [[/underlined]] 123.

to see (pl. [[strikethrough]] LIX, and also note 100, on page 117).  [[/strikethrough]] ^[[21, fig.2). handwritten]]  Its position suggested not only that it still stood just where it had originally been set up, but also that it had once formed one of a pair, or perhaps several pairs, of confronting sculptures lining both sides of the southern approach to the mound.  If the latter was the case, however, the companion figure (or figures) had now completely disappeared.  Perhaps some of them we [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] thought, might still exist, buried in the ground near by ([[underlined]]  cf. [[/underlined]] pp. 116 [[underlined]] sq. [[/underlined]] and 133).  

The carving, weatherworn and blotched with lichen, stood about 5 feet high.  Together with a pedestal of uncertain shape (its upper surface now just flush with the ground), it had been hewn out of a single great slab.  The workmanship simulated rather than achieved the full round; for nowhere had the stone been cut completely through.  This fact, coupled with a certain awkwardness in execution, suggested to me that what we saw was an attempt at the full round by sculptors accustomed to working in relief.  The few stone figures that have come down to us from the Eastern Han period, 2 or 3 centuries after the time of Ho Ch'u-ping, display far greater assurance and skill.

The horse, without either saddle or bridle, was standing erect, with all four feet and the end of its long tail (only partially cut free from the rest of the stone) attached to the pedestal on which it stood.  The legs were short and thick, the head large and coarse and with pendulous lower lip.  The ears had disappeared.  The figure was however not lacking in a certain brutal force and dignity.

Beneath the horse's body was delineated (rather than sculptured) a struggling warrior lying on his back---in all liklihood one of those Hsiung-nu against whom Ho Ch'u-ping in his brief lifetime fought so successfully.  The man's great hairy head was thrown back until it rested