[612] This is more clearly suggested in a second photograph taken in the afternoon, with the shadows to the right hand.
[613] Traceable easily on the stone, but usually in shadow, owing to the projection of the stone of the upper course.
[614] ‘The bagpipe consists of the skin of a dog apparently, the insufflation pipe being at the tail end, while the drone pipe was probably concealed within the dog’s head, with the vent through its mouth. The same idea was carried out in the Middle Ages in Europe. Cf. Aristophanes, Acharnians (i. 866): ‘you flute-players who are here from Thebes blow the dog’s tail with your bone-pipes’ (Extract from a letter from Miss K. Schlesinger).
[618] MM. Perrot and Guillaume in particular seem to have fallen before the pitfalls of perspective in the picture, and their drawing is misleading (Exploration Archéologique, Cappadoce, Pl. LXIV.; Art in ... Asia Minor, ii., fig. 338). They have been followed by others.
[619] Perrot and Chipiez, op. cit., p. 174, fig. 339.
[620] See below, Pls. [LXXIX.], [LXXX.]
[621] See Perrot, Art in ... Asia Minor, ii., fig. 341 and fig. 340; Exploration, Pl. LVII.