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[[underlined]] Chapter VII. [[/underlined]] 125.


recumbent man. [[superscript]] (112) [[/superscript]] ^[[T]]he possible existence of some connection, direct or
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[[superscript]] (112) [[/superscript]] See Carl Hentze, "Les influences étrangères dans la monument de Houo-K'iu-Ping", [[underlined]] Art. Asiae [[/underlined]], 1925, pp. 31-36; see especially pp. 32 and 33, where the Chinese and the Babylonian groups are shown side by side.
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indirect, is by no means to be summarily dismissed; for it was precisely in the lifetime of Han Wu Ti that contacts between China and the Near East became closer than ever before.

[[underlined]] The Second Horse. [[/underlined]]
Mr. Li now took us to see the other horse figure, of which he had told us the night before. This lay, back uppermost, in a small excavated hollow to the north ([[underlined]] i.e. [[/underlined]], on the opposite side) of the mound, about 50 feet from its base.  Like that of the group just described, its position was slightly to the west of an imaginary north-by-south line passing through the apex of the mound; but instead of facing east, its outstretched head pointed to the north.
  The figure, approximately life size, measured about 9 feet from muzzle to tail. Like the first horse, it was without either saddle or bridle. In conception and execution, however, it displayed far greater realism, assurance, and skill. Its rather small head was much finer (pl. [[strikethrough]] LXII), [[/strikethrough]] ^[[22, fig. 2),]] the curves of its back and flanks startlingly lifelike. How its legs had been represented, we were unable to make out; for the lower portions of the sculpture were concealed by earth which had fallen, or perhaps been washed, into the shallow excavation in which it lay.
  Fortunately, when my friend M. Lartigue visited the spot, late in the previous year, the figure had been almost completely exposed to view. To his clear descriptions and excellent photographs, therefore, we owe our ^[[k]]nowledge that the animal had been represented as lying down, its hind legs folded under it, the front ones extending forward. [[superscript]] (113) [[/superscript]]

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