[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).]