Category: History - Ancient
description of sanctuary and decorative scheme (pp. 211, 213); leading figures of gods (pp. 214-216); a priest-figure (p. 217); procession of male figures (pp. 218-220); plan and schedule (p. 221); the leading goddesses, etc. (pp. 222, 223), procession of females (p. 224), the...
description of sanctuary and decorative scheme (pp. 211, 213); leading figures of gods (pp. 214-216); a priest-figure (p. 217); procession of male figures (pp. 218-220); plan an...
3. PART I.—The Palace and Sculptures of Eyuk (pp. 242-269).Researches (pp. 242, 243): the site (pp. 244-245); the Sphinx-gate (pp. 246-248); buildings and masonry (pp. 249-252). The Sculptures: sphinxes, bull-god, priest and priestess,...
4. PART II.—The Town and Sculptures of Sinjerli (pp. 270-298).Excavations, summary of results (pp. 270-273); reliefs from city gate, eagle-headed deities, horse-riders, winged monsters, male figures, bowman, hare and stag (pp. 274-276); ci...
5. PART III.—The Mounds and Palace-portico of Sakje-Geuzi (pp.298-314). Local history and research, walled citadel (pp. 298-300); palace entrance, decorations, lion corner-stones (pp. 301-302); reliefs, eagle-headed deity, fertilising tree...
6. i. King-priest making oblations at the shrine of the God of the skies,The other stones from Malatia[297] are four in number, each decorated on one face. Unfortunately no information is forthcoming in regard to them except the published photographs...
7. PART I.Fundamental though they are to our inquiry, the isolated monuments which have been reviewed in the preceding chapter illustrate only certain aspects of Hittite art, and disclose...
8. PART II.—THE ROCK SCULPTURES CALLED IASILY KAYA.The far-famed sculptures named by the Turks simply ‘Inscribed Rock’ are at a distance of about two miles eastward from the village of Boghaz-Keui. They are not easy to locate. A...
9. PART I.—THE PALACE AND SCULPTURES OF EYUK.In the foregoing chapter it has incidentally become apparent that the northern capital arose to greatness as the centre of a military organisation rather than as the geographica...
10. PART II.—THE TOWN AND SCULPTURES OF SINJERLI.Excavations conducted during three seasons at Sinjerli by the German Orient Committee[637] have thrown a flood of light upon the archæology of Northern Syria. They have also con...
11. PART III.—THE MOUNDS AND PALACE-PORTICO AT SAKJE-GEUZI.We have already described the situation of the neighbouring site of Sakje-Geuzi, and the nature of some of its surface monuments. There are several prominent mounds in this loca...