[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.