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mcculloch.2@osu.edu (Hu McCulloch) writes:
|> 
|> It was Jett who first identified the objects in question, in
|> photos from Somnathpur, as maize, circa 1979. 
|> Johannessen and Parker followed up on Jett's lead by visiting
|> this and other Hoysala temples first hand, and thoroughly documenting
|> that the carvings were indeed of maize, in their 1989 
|> _Economic Botany_ article.  

Not having access to photos of the sculptures in question, I have
one question: do the objects identified as maize have unmistakable
husks and tassels, in addition to rows of kernals?

If _all three_ of these elements are clearly sculpted, then the
objects could only be ears of maize. If the objects only have
rows of kernals, but no husks and no tassels, then the identification
is _much weaker_, IMHO. 

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