[243] It is now in the Metropolitan Museum, New York; (Cesnola Coll., No. 1904), and there are impressions in the Berlin Museum. [244] _C.I.H._ (1906), pp. 12-15, and Pl. LII. [245] _Op. cit._, p. 13. The original is at the Constantinople Museum, No. 1625. [246] After inspection of the object we believe this to be the real explanation. We are confirmed also in our impression that the inscription and carving are contemporary with the original monument.—March 1910. [247] See, for example, fig. No. 72 in the small gallery at Iasily Kaya, below, Pl. LXX.; also pp. 110, 360. For the tassel cf. pp. 306, 308, and Pl. LXXXI. (ii). [248] _C.I.H._ (1900-4), p. 19; and (1900-5), Pl. XXIV. [249] Humann and Puchstein, _Reisen, etc., Atlas_, Pl. XLVII., No. 2; Perrot and Chipiez, _Art in ... Asia Minor_, ii., fig. 281. Metrop. Mus. of Art, New York, No. 1906. [250] Thought by Perrot to be a high stool. [251] Cf. the lyre held by an Asiatic immigrant into Egypt about 2000 B.C. Newberry, _Beni Hasan_ (London, 1893), Pl. XXXI. [252] As a cult object this bird provides a wide and interesting range of study. Cf. for example, an Archaic Greek statue of the sixth century B.C., from Asia Minor, in the Berlin Museum (Stehende Frau), No. 1597. [253] Humann and Puchstein, _Reisen, etc., Atlas_, Pl. XLVII., fig. 4. There is a cast in the Berlin Museum, No. 61. [254] _E.g._ at Kara-Bel, Pl. LIV.; and at Malatia, Pl. XLIV. Cf. also the scene of the storming of Dapur in the Ramesseum at Thebes. [255] A cast is in the Berlin Vorderasiatisches Museum, No. 63, V.A.G. [256] Humann, etc., _op. cit._, XLVII. 5; Perrot, etc., _op. cit._, fig. 282. The original is in the Metropolitan Museum, New York, No. 1905; and there is a cast in the Berlin Museum. [257] Cf. pp. 265, 282. [258] Humann and Puchstein, _op. cit._, Pl. XLVII. 1. Berlin Vorderasiatisches Museum, 62. [259] Cf. similar sculptures of Malatia, p. 133; Sakje-Geuzi, Pl. XXXIX. [260] Original Berlin Vorderas. Mus., No. 974; Perrot and Chipiez, _op. cit._, ii. p. 77, fig. 290. [261] See below, p. 380. [262] Cf. below, p. 371, and Maspero, _The Struggle of the Nations_, pp. 145 ff. [263] See Perrot and Chipiez, _op. cit._, ii. p. 281, for summary of a report printed in the _Graphic_. Consult also Drummond, _Travels ... to the Banks of the Euphrates_ (1754), p. 209; and Maundrell (Hy.), _A Journey ... to the Banks of the Euphrates_ (Oxford), 1749. [264] See p. 263; and cf. Pl. LXV. (Iasily Kaya), Pl. LXXIX. (Sakje-Geuzi), and Pl. XLII. (Marash). For a discussion of the motive in general, see _Ausgrabungen in Sendschirli_, _cit._, p. 270, note 1. [265] As represented by Perrot and Chipiez, _Art in ... Asia Minor_, ii. p. 62, fig. 276. For the photo from which we write we are indebted to the courtesy of the Mission at Cæsarea. This object is illustrated by an ill-printed photograph in Sayce’s _The Hittites_, to face p. 58, where it is described by oversight as from Marash.