B. PHRYGIA.--_Giaur-Kalessi_; rock-cut figures and remains of a
stronghold, but no inscriptions. _Doghanludere_ and _Beikeui_ in the
Phrygian rock-monument country; at the first is a sculptured
rock-panel with a few pictographs in relief; at the latter a fragment
of an inscription in relief was disinterred from a mound. _Kolitolu
Yaila_, near Ilghin; block inscribed in relief, disinterred from
mounds apparently marking a camp or palace-enclosure. _Eflatun Bunar_
(= Plato's Spring), W. of Konia; megalithic building with rude and
greatly defaced reliefs, not certainly Hittite: no inscription.
Fassiler, W. of Konia; gigantic _stela_, or composite statue (figure
on animals), not certainly Hittite; no inscription. _Konia_; relief of
warrior, drawn by Texier in 1835 and since lost; of very doubtful
Hittite character. A gold inscribed Hittite ring, now at Oxford, was
bought there in 1903. _Emirghazi_ (anc. _Ardistama_?); three
inscriptions in relief (two on altars) and large mounds. Evidently an
important Hittite site. _Kara-Dagh_; hill-sanctuary with incised
carving of seated figure and inscriptions, found by Miss G. L. Bell
and Sir W. M. Ramsay in 1907 (see their _Thousand and One Churches_,
1909).
C. NORTH CAPPADOCIA.--_Boghaz Keui_ (see PTERIA); large city with
remains of palace, citadel, walls, &c. Long rock-cut inscription of
ten lines in relief, two short relief inscriptions cut on blocks, and
also cuneiform tablets in Babylonian and also in a native language,
first found in situ in 1893, and showing the site to be the capital of
Arzawa, whence came two of the Tell el-Amarna letters. Near the site
are the rock reliefs of _Yasili Kaya_ in two hypaethral galleries,
showing, in the one, two processions composed of over sixty figures
meeting at the head of the gallery; in the other, isolated groups of
figures, fifteen in number (see for detailed description _Murray's
Guide to Asia Minor_, 1895, pp. 23 ff.). Pictographs accompany many of
the figures. The whole makes the most extensive group of Hittite
remains yet known. Boghaz Keui was never thoroughly explored until
1907, the survey of Perrot and Guillaume having been superficial only
and the excavations of E. Chantre (1894) very slight. In 1906 a German
expedition under Professor H. Winckler undertook the work, and great
numbers of cuneiform tablets were found. These refer to the reigns of
at least four kings from Subbiluliuma (= Saplel, see above) to
Hattusil II. or Khartusil (= Khetasar, see above). The latter was an
ally of Katashmanturgu of Babylon, and powerful enough to write to
the Babylonian court as a sovereign of equal standing. His letter
shows that he considered the rise of Assyria a menace to himself.
Winckler claims to read _Hatti_ as the name of the possessors of
Boghaz Keui, and to find in this name the proof of the Hittite
character of Syro-Cappadocian power and of the imperial predominance
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