[197] These monuments are now to be seen at Constantinople, in the Ottoman Museum. (Nos. 831, 832, etc.) [198] _C.I.H._, Pl. III. A, Text, p. 4 (_Mitteilungen_, etc., 1900, 4, 5), and _Proc. S.B.A._, v. (1883), p. 146. [199] By the Liverpool Expedition of 1907. See _Liv. Annals of Arch._, i. p. 8, Pl. IX., 3; and cf. _Proc. S.B.A._, June 1908. For three uninscribed but presumably Hittite sculptures from Aleppo, see _Liv. Annals_, ii. p. 184, and Pl. XLII. [200] See Pl. XXXVIII., to face. [201] _C.I.H._ (1900), Pl. VII. and p. 8. [202] _Vorderasiatische Abteilung_, No. 3009. [203] _Mitteilungen der Vorderasiatischen Gesellschaft_, 1900, pt. 4, p. 8. There is another inscribed object coming from this region now in the museum at Alexandretta, but it seems to have come originally from Marash. It is a small stone inscribed on both sides, of which one is flat and the other convex. The four rows of hieroglyphs in relief are preserved on either side, while portions of a fifth are visible, for a part of the object is broken away. Its width is 9½ inches, and the height of what is preserved 14 inches (_ibid., loc. cit._). [204] _C.I.H._ (1900, 5), Pl. XXVI. 1, 2, and do. (1900, 4), p. 20. [205] The illustration of the Sinjerli scene, Pl. LXXV., explains the subject in general: only at Sakje-Geuzi one of the figures is standing, in the other cases both are seated. [206] Compare in shape and subject the ‘gravestone of an Aramaic Queen,’ eighth century B.C., Berlin Museum (_Vorderasiatische Abteilung_, No. 2995). The shape corresponds also with that of the monument from Samsat (below, p. 130); and of the stela of Nabonidus from Mujelibeh now at Constantinople, published by Scheil, _Recueil de Travaux_, xviii. 1, 2 (Paris, 1896). [207] Such as are to be seen at Sakje-Geuzi and in one instance at Marash. [208] Unfortunately there seem to have been no soundings made for a much-wanted Hittite necropolis. On the possible evolution of the motive in general, see below, p. 357. [209] On this point see p. 357, and cf. Jensen, _Hittiter und Armenier_ (Strassburg, 1898), p. 166; and Crowfoot, _Jour. Hell. Stud._, xix., pp. 42, 43. [210] _Liv. Annals of Arch._, i. pp. 97-117, and Pls. XXXIII.-XLIX. [211] Publ. in _Liv. Annals of Arch._, i. Pl. XLV., and pp. 101-2. There is a cast at the Liverpool Institute of Archæology. [212] Cf. the monuments of this class from Marash, described below, and the stela of Nerab, a Phœnician monument of the ninth century B.C. (of which a good photograph is published by Ball, _Light from the East_, to face p. 236). These sculptures should be compared with representations of shrines, or offerings at the altar, like the reliefs at Fraktin, Pl. XLVII. (_Recueil de Travaux_, xiv., Pl. VI., and Chantre, _Mission en Cappadoce_, Pl. XXIII.); also a scene at Eyuk, Pl. LXXIII. (i). [213] Cf. the similar sculpture from Marash, p. 111, and _C.I.H._ (1900, 5), Pl. XXII., and from Malatia, below, p. 135.