of the city. But it remains to be proved whether these tablets were
written there, and not rather, being in a foreign script, abroad, like
most of the Tell el-Amarna archives. O. Puchstein has cleared and
studied important architectural remains. _Euyuk_; large mound with
remains of palace entered between sphinxes. Sculptured wall-dados, but
no Hittite inscriptions. Cuneiform tablets; some Babylonian, others in
a native language. Also inscriptions in early Phrygian character and
language, found in 1894. The most famous of Hittite reliefs is here--a
double-headed eagle "displayed" on the flank of one of the gateway
sphinxes. This is supposed to have suggested to the Seljuks of Konia
their heraldic device adopted in the 13th century, which, brought to
Europe by the Crusaders, became the emblem of Teutonic empire in 1345.
This derivation must be taken, however, _cum grano_, proof of its
successive steps being wanting. Kara-Euyuk; a mound near Dedik,
partially excavated by E. Chantre in 1894. Cuneiform tablets and small
objects possibly, but not certainly, Hittite. A colossal eagle was
found on a deserted site near _Yamuli_ on the middle Halys, in 1907 by
W. Attmore Robinson.
[Illustration: Map of Hittite remains.]
D. SOUTH CAPPADOCIA.--_Karaburna_; long, incised rock-inscription.
_Bogja_, eight hours west of Kaisariye; four-sided _stela_ with
incised inscription. _Assarjik_, on the side of Mt. Argaeus; incised
rock-inscription. _Ekrek_; a fragmentary inscription in relief and an
incised inscription on a _stela_ of very late appearance. _Fraktin_ or
_Farakdin_ (probably anc. _Das-tarkon_); sculptured rock-panel showing
two groups of figures in act of cult, with hieroglyphs in relief.
_Arslan Tash_, near Comana (Cappadocia), on the Soghan Dagh; two
colossal lions, one with incised inscription. _Tashji_ in the Zamanti
valley; rock-relief with rudely incised inscription. _Andaval_ and
_Bor_; inscriptions incised on sculptured _stelae_ of kings (?),
probably from Tyana (_Ekuzli Hissar_). All are now in Constantinople.
A silver seal with hieroglyphs, now at Oxford, came also from Bor.
_Nigdeh_; basalt drum or altar with incised inscription. _Ivriz_;
rock-sculpture of king adoring god, with three inscriptions in relief.
A second sculpture, similar in subject but smaller and much defaced,
was found hard by in 1906. _Bulgar Maden_; long incised rock
inscription, near silver-mines. _Gorun_ (Gurun); two rock-inscriptions
in relief, much damaged. _Arslan-Tepe_, near Ordasu (two hours from
Malatia); large mound whence two sculptured _stelae_ or wall-blocks
with inscriptions in relief have been unearthed (now in Constantinople
and the Louvre). Four other reliefs, reported found near Malatia and
published by J. Garstang in _Annals Arch. and Anthrop._, 1908,
probably came also from Arslan Tepe. _Palanga_; lower aniconic half of
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