[682] By the Liverpool expedition of 1908. Liv. Annals of Archæology, i. (1908), pp. 97-117, and Pls. XXXIII.-XLIX.
[684] Only the base or pedestal of the column was preserved, and the excavators found reason to believe that, after the destruction of the building, it had served some other purpose, possibly as an altar.
[685] See Pls. [LXXVII.], [LXXXI.]
[686] See Pls. [LXXIX.], [LXXX.]; and compare the lions of Marash ([Pl. XLII.]), of Eyuk ([p. 263]), and of Sinjerli ([p. 297]). Also of Boghaz-Keui, [Pl. LX.] and [p. 210].
[687] Compare the treatment of the mounds upon which stands the priest-dynast in the sculptures of Iasily Kaya, No. 22 R., [Pl. LXVIII.]
[688] On the subject of this emblem, cf. Ridgeway, ‘The Origin of the Turkish Crescent,’ Jour. Roy. Anthrop. Inst., vol. xxxviii., ii. (1908), p. 241.
[689] Cf. the double eagles of Iasily Kaya and Eyuk, Pls. [LXV.], [LXXII.]
[690] Cf. [p. 253] and [Pl. LXXII.]
[691] In the Liverpool Institute of Archæology there is a small stela of Egyptian work dating from about the twenty-eighth dynasty, on which a standing sphinx is portrayed; the tail of this creature is made to represent the head of a cobra. Compare also a sculpture from Sinjerli, [p. 275].