[65] It is, however, full of interests, as any student of Professor Ramsay’s researches will know. [66] Professor Ramsay’s _Luke the Physician_, pp. 129 ff., tells of numberless neglected irrigation works in the desert and on the slopes of Taurus. The country must, at one time, have presented quite a different appearance. [67] See below, p. 56, and Pl. XXV. (iii). [68] Cf. Ramsay and Hogarth, _Recueil de Travaux_, xiv. (1893), pp. 74 and ff. [69] See Pl. LV. [70] Locally called the _Bozanti Su_ or _Ak Su_, from the names of important points along the route; it is a main tributary of the Sarus, which it joins after uniting with the Korkun as it nears the plain. [71] See frontispiece. [72] It is stated, however, by Aucher-Eloy, _Relations de Voyages en Orient de 1830 à 1838_, i. p. 160, that a rock sculpture (of uncertain character) which he had seen in the Cilician Gates was destroyed in 1834. [73] We may reasonably suspect that this dates from the revival of the Hittite state with Tyana as its centre, in the tenth century B.C. (See above, p. 24, and below, p. 373.) On this question see Ramsay, _The Cities of St. Paul_ (London, 1907), pp. 114 and ff., also _Pauline and other Studies_ (London, 1906), ch. xi.; cf. also, for a description of the route, Davis, _Life in Asiatic Turkey_ (London, 1879), ch. viii. [74] Roadside rest-houses. Cf. Pls. XIII., XX. [75] Built or rebuilt it would seem by Ibrahim Pasha. [76] We cannot accept as Hittite, from the evidence before us, the doorway and carved lintel from Lamas near Aseli-Keui; Langlois, _Voyage en Cilicie_, p. 169; Perrot and Chipiez, _Art in ... Asia Minor_, ii. p. 57; Messerschmidt, _C.I.H._ (1900), Pl. XXXIII. B. [77] Among works readily accessible, we may refer the reader to Mr. Hogarth’s summary in the introduction to Murray’s _Handbook_; to the articles by Winckler and Brandis in vols. iii. and iv. of _The World’s History_, Ed. Helmolt (London, 1902); and for the materials to Ramsay, _Historical Geography of Asia Minor_ (London, 1890). [78] For a detailed account, with the sources, see below, Chapter VI. [79] The identification of Mita of Muski with Midas of Phrygia was first pointed out by Winckler, _Ostorientalische Forschungen_, ii. 71 ff. Our inference is that the Muski of the Assyrian Annals, the Moschoi of Herodotus (iii. 94), were really akin to the Phrygians of later history. [80] About 1170 B.C. [81] Fifty years later, in the reign of Tiglath Pileser I. [82] See the Maps accompanying Chap. VI. pp. 375, 385. [83] Hamilton, _Researches in Asia Minor_, i. p. 383; Ramsay, _Jour. Roy. As. Soc._, XV. p. 123. [84] See Pl. XXV. (iii), from _Liv. Annals_, i. Pl. XIII. The name of Midas in this inscription was first recognised by Prof. Myres, _op. cit._, p. 13. [85] Cf. Maspero, _The Struggle of the Nations_, pp. 591, 643. [86] In the reign of Assur-Nazir-Pal; cf. Maspero, _The Passing of Empires_, p. 16.