Up to the present time it cannot be said that any object unquestionably Mesopotamian has been found on any AEgean site, nor any object unquestionably AEgean on a Mesopotamian one. But it has been suggested that certain carved ivories found by Layard at Nimrud in the Palace of Sennacherib show manifest traces of AEgean influence; and in Southern Syria, at all events--at Gezer, Tell-es-Safi, and elsewhere--indisputably AEgean pottery and weapons have been discovered in sufficient quantity to show that there was certainly communication between the Minoan civilization and the shores of Asia. Intercourse is suggested also by the obvious communities of religious conception existing between Crete and Asia. In both places the divine spirit is believed to associate itself with sacred pillars, such as the Double Axe pillars at Knossos; in both it is personified as a Woman Goddess, the mother of all life, to whom is added a son, who is also a consort; while the emblems of the ancient cults--the guardian lions of the goddess on the hill, the Double Axe, and the triple pillars with perching doves--are property common to both Crete and Asia. This may not point, however, to a continued intercourse, but only to community at some early point of the history of both races. Of actual traces of Mesopotamian influence singularly few are to be found in Crete. Dr. Evans has shown the correspondence of a purple gypsum weight found during the second season's excavations at Knossos, with the light Babylonian talent, while the ingots of bronze from Hagia Triada represent the same standard of weight. It may be that the drainage system so highly developed at Knossos and Hagia Triada found its first suggestion in the terra-cotta drain-pipes discovered at Niffur by Hilprecht, though it is by no means obvious that copying should be necessary in such a matter. The clay tablets engraved with hieroglyphic and linear script suggest at once the corresponding and universal use of the clay tablet for the cuneiform script of Babylonia; and that is practically all that can be said of any connection between the cultures of Crete and Mesopotamia.