crescent-hilted sword at his side, each is marching to the spectator’s left with raised right hand; and the resemblance between them is nearly complete except that the figure in front is beardless and the figure behind is bearded. See G. Perrot et Ch. Chipiez, _Histoire de l’Art dans l’Antiquité_, iv. 714 _sqq._, with fig. 352; J. Garstang, _The Land of the Hittites_, pp. 162-164. A similar, but solitary, figure is carved in a niche of the rock at Kara-Bel, but there the deity, or the man, carries a triangular bow over his right shoulder. See below, p. 185. With regard to the lionesses or panthers, a bas-relief found at Carchemish, the capital of a Hittite kingdom on the Euphrates, shows two male figures in Hittite costume, with pointed caps and turned-up shoes, standing on a crouching lion. The foremost of the two figures is winged and carries a short curved truncheon in his right hand. According to Prof. Perrot, the two figures represent a god followed by a priest or a king. See G. Perrot et Ch. Chipiez, _Histoire de l’Art dans l’Antiquité_, iv. 549 _sq._; J. Garstang, _The Land of the Hittites_, pp. 123 _sqq._ Again, on a sculptured slab found at Amrit in Phoenicia we see a god standing on a lion and holding a lion’s whelp in his left hand, while in his right hand he brandishes a club or sword. See Perrot et Chipiez, _op. cit._ iii. 412-414. The type of a god or goddess standing or sitting on a lion occurs also in Assyrian art, from which the Phoenicians and Hittites may have borrowed it. See Perrot et Chipiez, _op. cit._ ii. 642-644. Much evidence as to the representation of Asiatic deities with lions has been collected by Raoul-Rochette, in his learned dissertation “Sur l’Hercule Assyrien et Phénicien,” _Mémoires de l’Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres_, xvii. Deuxième Partie (Paris, 1848), pp. 106 _sqq._ Compare De Vogüé, _Mélanges d’Archéologie Orientale_, pp. 44 _sqq._ M103 The mystery of the lion-god.