[692] Cf. the tassel and dirk upon the stone recently discovered at Marash, [p. 115].
[693] Especially in representations of the priesthood. Cf. Boghaz-Keui, ([Pl. LXVIII.]), Eyuk ([Pl. LXXII.]).
[694] The treatment of this bird is very similar to that on the small monument from Marash, [p. 118], illustrated in Humann and Puchstein, Reisen in Kleinasien, Pl. XLVII., fig. 2; and Perrot and Chipiez, Art in ... Asia Minor, ii. p. 68, fig. 2, and p. 181. It is interesting to compare it also with the bird sculptured on an archaic statue from Asia Minor of the sixth century B.C., No. 1577, Berlin Museum, Stehende Frau.
[695] See [p. 255], [Pl. LXXII.]
[696] Compare the head-dress of the priest-king just described. The horns are wanting on the similar sphinx-base from Sinjerli (Ausgrabungen in Sendschirli, ii., Pl. XXXIII.), and in this case an extra short wing is shown descending behind the shoulder: otherwise the details of treatment correspond. It is interesting to compare these bases with one of purely Assyrian style, published by Layard (Monuments of Nineveh, i. Pl. XCV.); in the latter case there are three pairs of horns, and the rendering of the idea differs in nearly every detail.
[697] See Ausgrabungen in Sendschirli, i., p. 54, fig. 16; and Berlin Vorderas. Mus., No. 3012.
[698] See [Chapter III., p. 141], and [Pl. XLV.], and cf. [p. 142, note 4].
[699] In the Berl. Vorderas. Mus., vide Ausgrabungen, etc., iv.
[700] In this opinion we differ somewhat from Dr. Messerschmidt, Orientalistische Litteraturzeitung, Sept. 1909, pp. 378, 381, where he reviews the results of the excavations made by us at Sakje-Geuzi.
[701] See Liverpool Annals of Archæology, vol. i., No. 4, Pl. XLIII., and p. 112, etc.