[562] Cf. Winckler, Report cit., p. 36 (below, [p. 338]), where the same custom is illustrated in a treaty with the Mitanni.
[563] Incidentally it is of interest to note that an eagle was associated with the rites of Sandon of Tarsus, identified with the Son-god, who here precedes the eagle-deities. Cf. Frazer, op cit., p. 99.
[564] Berlin Vorderasiatisches Museum (Königl. Mus.), No. 977.
[565] Letter from Professor A. H. Sayce, July 23, 1909.
[566] See above, [p. 155] and [Pl. XLIX.]
[568] Cf. Herodotus, i. 199; Strabo, XVI. i. 20.
[569] Independently Professor Sayce informs us that he has recognised in the symbol accompanying the first of these the emblem of the kingdom of Kas, the second state of the confederacy.
[570] Nos. 5, 7.
[571] Compare especially No. 5 with the winged deity of Malatia. [Pl. XLIV.]