The land of the Hittites : $b An account of recent explorations and discoveries in Asia Minor, with descriptions of the Hittite monumentsGarstang, John
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The land of the Hittites : $b An account of recent explorations and discoveries in Asia Minor, with descriptions of the Hittite monuments
Garstang, John
Hittites; Turkey -- Antiquities
The inscription commences with two groups of hieroglyphs which may be
read _Ay-mi-ny-a-s of the land of Tyana_.[444] An earlier reading[445] by
the same decipherer suggested _Ai-m-gal-a-s_, corresponding to the royal
name Αινγαλος occurring in Greek inscriptions of Cilicia. However that
may be, and whatever may be the precise values to be assigned to these
hieroglyphs, the initial group which contains the royal name[446] will be
found to recur on the two famous monuments of Bulghar-Madên and Ivrîz.
On the latter, the name appears in one place written exactly in this
instance, and in another place, as at Bulghar-Madên, with a slight and
evidently grammatical variation. This fact throws a welcome light upon
the local history of the period.
Of the other monuments of the locality, the fragment from Andaval—now
hidden in the Greek church of that place—seems from the description given
of it to have been part of a similar monument, or at any rate of a stone
decorated with human figure and inscription.[447] The stone is broken
and rounded, measuring about thirteen inches across. It shows only
the top and back of the head of the figure, with two lines of incised
hieroglyphs above and the beginnings of two lines behind. The hair on
the head is shown by small curls, while behind the neck it falls in the
characteristic bunch. The eye is seen as usual in full upon the profile
of the figure, which is turned to the observer’s right.
The third monument has been found[448] in late years at Nigdeh, where
it was dug out of the foundations of a house. It is round and moulded,
and in all probability formed part of the base of a column or of a
built-up pedestal of some kind. At the bottom there is a protrusion of
stone for attachment, and in the top there is a square-cut socket hole,
of a width equal to about a third of the whole diameter. The mouldings,
which run around the upper edge only, look almost Roman in style. The
inscription[449] upon it is short, occupying a space only twelve inches
by four, and the letters are incised.
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