[54] We do not attempt to distinguish any but the types that recall the various Hittite representations in contemporary sculptures, particularly those which decorate the walls of Egyptian temples. Such resemblance may be accidental, but it is of interest. In the deeper inquiry, there is a wonderful field of material for a trained ethnographist. Probably no ‘nation’ on earth to-day is composed of so many and varying elements as is that of the Turks. A walk through any market town, where the people are brought together, or even a glance out of the carriage window at the people on the platform of a busy railway station, will bring forth visions of Tartars and Mongols, Greeks and Jews, even occasionally Hindoos and Arabs, as well as the dominant Turkoman, Circassian and Armenian types, all of which under Nature’s gentle and wonderful influence seem to blend quite fittingly together. There is nothing, moreover, that astonishes the reason; for this country was not only the battlefield of nations, but the natural pathway between two continents. Cf. Pls. XV., LXXXV.-LXXXVII. [55] Cf. Pls. LXXXIV., LXXXVI. (i). On the subject of surviving types, cf. Wilson (Sir Charles) in the _Quart. Statement Pal. Expl. Fd._, Jan. 1884. [56] And thence in ancient times to Sinope. Ramsay, _Hist. Geog._, p. 28; see also Curtius, _Griech. Gesch._, ed. 5, i. 408, and Herodotus, i. 76, in reference to which cf. Perrot and Chipiez, _History of Art in Sardinia ... Syria and Asia Minor_ (Engl. ed. 1890), ii. p. 103. [57] _E.g._ Herodotus, ix. 27; and Strabo, XI. ch. v. 4. [58] See Pl. L. [59] Ramsay, _Historical Geography_, p. 31, and _Jour. Roy. As. Soc._, XV. pp. 100-112; also Crowfoot, _Jour. Hell. Stud._, XIX., i. p. 50. [60] Herodotus, i. 72. But cf. also Homer, _Iliad_, iii. 187, and xvi. 719. [61] Ramsay, _Historical Geography_, pp. 29, 30. See Pl. XXIV. (i). [62] Herodotus, i. 75, quotes a general doubt (in which, however, he does not share) that the Halys was not yet bridged in the time of Crœsus. There are, however, suitable fords northward from Cheshme Keupru still freely used for the summer routes leading from Angora across the river eastward; and that the bridge was in use in Persian times seems to be clear (_ibid._, v. 52). [63] _Vide_ Ramsay, _Studies in the History and Art of the Eastern Provinces of the Roman Empire_ (Aberdeen, 1906), pp. 177-180. [64] The Hittite horses were called by the Egyptians _abari_, strong or vigorous (_Anastasi Pap._, iv., Pl. XVII., ll. 8-9), but we may suspect that the reference here and elsewhere is to the breeds of Syria (vide _Annals of Thothmes_ III.); Maspero (_Struggle of the Nations_, p. 215, note 4, and p. 352, note 4) seems divided in his view, referring the passage in one place to Cappadocia and in the other to Syria. Cf. also his _Passing of Empires_ (1900), p. 205. There was a special breed in Cilicia, it would appear, in Persian times, from the reference in Herodotus, iii. 90.