Note 717 — VI THE STORY OF THE HITTITES

In this case the head is shaved. There is another form of pigtail which must be distinguished from this, being in fact only the hair so cut and drawn together behind the head that it ends in the same way. Cf. De G. Davies, Tell el Amarna II. (temp. Amenhetep IV. Akhenaten), Pl. XL. (bottom row); also ‘the people of Dapur in the land of the Amorites,’ S. wall of the great hall in the Ramesseum (T in Murray’s Handbook for Egypt, 1907, p. 414), where also the square shield and triangular bow should be noted.