The Adana Museum possesses a statue of a lion some aspects of which merit attention. The site of its discovery, Çolaklıköy, is discussed below.
The animal, carved in the round from brownish black basalt, stands on a base now in bad condition. Its position is upright, front paws together, hind left-paw advanced. The belly and paws are not detached from the block. The surface is badly worn, the muzzle damaged and the claws broken. The jaws are shown open and partly hollowed out. The head is wreathed by the mane, the ears were meant to be lying back and pointed in shape (Fig. 3). Around the eyes and on the muzzle the basalt surface has flaked off. The mane, covering the shoulders and the belly, seems not to have been marked out in tufts. The right-hand section of the back from the shoulder to the rump is flattened into a horizontal surface in the middle of which is a rectangular hole (length 5 cm., width 3.5 cm., depth 3 cm.). Lastly, the rear end is squared off in a vertical plane. The treatment of the back and of its extension shows that the sculpture has been used for some purpose (Fig. 4).