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• T.E. Lawrence wrote to Will Lawrence on 21 October 1913, "I persuaded Young in his week here to spend his spare time carving gargoyles for the better adornment of the house. He managed in limestone an ideal head of a woman; I did a squatting demon of the Notre-Dame style, also in limestone, and we have now built them into the walls and roof, and the house is become remarkable in N. Syria. The local people come up in crowds to look at them."
• As seen in the photograph, Lawrence's sculpture is not of a squatting demon, but of a naked young man, which according to the Lawrence's biographer Jeremy Wilson was the cause of Leonard Woolley's allegations that "Lawrence, stopping in the house after the dig was over, had Dahoum to live with him and got him to pose as model for a queer crouching figure which he carved in the soft local limestone and set up on the edge of the house roof; to make an image was bad enough in its way, but to portray a naked figure was proof to them of evil of another sort. The scandal about Lawrence was widely spread and firmly believed."

• Appears in the journal article "Hubert Young at Carchemish" by Martin Young, The Journal of the T. E. Lawrence Society, Autumn 1997, pp. 38-39.

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