Assisi: An Online Journal of Arts & Letters Volume 4, Issues 1 & 2 | Page 27

wrapping around its hips and buttocks and flattening out to conceal the genitalia. The
figure holds a sword behind its neck in its right hand. A small piece of the seaweed hangs
from the tip of the sword’s blade. The figure’s left hand is behind its back and appears to
be pushing the seaweed away from the buttocks. Thick waves of hair drape its forehead.
The face is wide, the nose small and the chin squared. The right leg thrusts forward and
bends awkwardly at the knee towards the side.
Laying at the male’s
feet are two nude females
with scaly appendages
extending from their lower
torsos. Both figures are
tangled in the seaweed. The
figure in the front curls its
torso around the male‘s left
foot. Its lowered head is
buried beneath a thick wig of
dangling seaweed and behind
a clenched right fist. The rear
figure cranes its neck and
torso upwards towards the
male. Its head cradled in the
crook of its right arm.
Embedded in the seaweed are
sculpted locks and chains and
a slanted rock face upon
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which the male