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Basalt double sphinx column base from the entrance of Palace III.
Late Hittite Period (Aramaean) - 8th century BCE.

This Column Base is in the Istanbul Archaeological Museum, there is another one very similar in design in the Berlin Pergamon museum.
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Basalt double sphinx column base from the entrance of Palace III.
Late Hittite Period (Aramaean) - 8th century BCE.

This Column Base is in the Istanbul Archaeological Museum, there is another one very similar in design in the Berlin Pergamon museum.

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