[592] It may be seen in the photograph, [Pl. LXXII.], and covers the sculptured block marked e in the plan, extending a little way on either side.
[593] The restoration suggested by Macridy Bey, op. cit., p. 11.
[594] Macridy Bey, op. cit., figs. 23, 24.
[595] Cf. the ‘Stadt-thor’ at Sinjerli; Von Luschan, Ausgrabungen in Sendschirli (Berlin, 1902), Pls. XXIX., XXXIV.; and below, [p. 274].
[596] The recent excavators failed to see the remains of these sphinxes, op. cit., p. 11, but they are quite plain in profile after the earth has been cleared away; see a photo, Liverpool Annals of Archæology, i. (1908), Pl. III.
[597] Cf. for example, Murray’s Handbook for Asia Minor, p. 27.
[598] [Pl. LXXII.] Cf. the details of the Sphinx from Sakje-Geuzi, [Pl. LXXXII.]
[599] Cf. Maspero, The Struggle of the Nations, p. 648.
[600] See the photograph in Newberry, etc., Short History of Egypt (ed. 1907), frontispiece. The special feature of the horseshoe-like head-dress occurs on scarabs of the Hyksos period (cf. the same writer’s Scarabs, London, 1906, Pl. XXV. No. 30), another suggestion of Asiatic origins.
[601] Berlin Mus., Etruscan Rooms, No. 1251. Compare also some weathered statues from Sinjerli described below, pp. [297], [298].