Appleton's annual cyclopedia and register of important events: embracing political, military, an ecclesiastical affairs; public documents; biography, statistics, commerce, finance, literature, science, agriculture, and mechanical industry . s of the walls of the greatchasm of Bogaz Keui are processions, one ofmale the other of female figures which meet atthe head of the ravine, where a gigantic malefigure, standing on the bent-down heads oftwo persons with long robes, and a female fig-ure standing on some animal and wearing amural crown are presenting floral symbols inwhich is a form like that
Appleton's annual cyclopedia and register of important events: embracing political, military, an ecclesiastical affairs; public documents; biography, statistics, commerce, finance, literature, science, agriculture, and mechanical industry . s of the walls of the greatchasm of Bogaz Keui are processions, one ofmale the other of female figures which meet atthe head of the ravine, where a gigantic malefigure, standing on the bent-down heads oftwo persons with long robes, and a female fig-ure standing on some animal and wearing amural crown are presenting floral symbols inwhich is a form like that of the mandragora ormandrake, to each other. The figures in thefemale procession, each bearing what resem-bles an unstrung bow, remind the observer ofthe Amazons; and it is a striking fact thatBogaz Keui is not far from the place, by theriver Thermodon, to which the Greeks assignedthe Amazons. If the story of the Amazonswas purely legendary, these sculptures mightbe regarded as showing that it was believed inin what might be regarded as their own coun-try. A seal lately obtained from Yusgat, nowin the British Museum, is considered to castsome light on the nature of the Hittite inscrip-tions. It is circular and contains solar, devo-. CENTRAL BASS-RELIEF AT BOGAZ KEUI. um, Mr. Thomas Tyler expressed it as the cur-rently received opinion that there probablynever was a Hittite empire in such a sense asthe word empire now suggests. The view thatthe nation consisted of independent states or cit-ies, which formed federations under pressure ofthe necessities of war is apparently confirmedby the expression, King of the Hittites, usedin the Old Testament. These peoples are to beidentified with the Khita of the Egyptians and tional, and symbolical designs, with a male fig-ure bringing tribute or a present, and a femalemaking obeisance to a king sitting on a throne,behind whom are other figures symbolical, per-haps, of the spoils of war or thehunt. The designis analogous to a portion of t
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