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 Sculpture. 71 carries in his right hand a drinking cup, and in his left a palm. A table of the usual type, loaded with viands, separates the god from the hero or knight. Near the former is a plate, with what appears to be a duck or goose ; and in the second platter crescent- shaped objects, fritters, cakes, or fruit, at will. Below these figures is a groom minding the horse of his master (seen in the upper register), which he is walking up and down.^ There is yet the fragment of a stela, un- covered at Roum-Kale between Birejik and Samosata, to be men- tioned among exemplars of Hittite origin. It portrays a bearded per- sonage, with a round cap, bearing a palm, the distinctive badge of a worshipper. The exe- cution, owing partly to the hardness of the material, and partly to unskilfulness, is so un- couth that it is difficult to make out the other attributes, except so far that he seems to hold a lyre in his left hand like that of Fig. 281, and that he wears a girdle, from which hangs a broad dagger. His tunic, heavily trimmed with fur, is cut away in front to facilitate locomotion, and discloses the legs and feet, ^ On the base of another stela, the carving of which is obliterated, was figured a chariot Fig. 28J. — Fragment of Stela. Basalt. Height, 50 c. Gazette Arch., 1883, Plate XXII.