228 REV. G. E. WHITE, ON A VISIT TO THE 
ear-rings. One figure has either a long tassel on a close- 
fitting cap, or hair depending in a closely-tied queue; either 
supposition favours a Mongol origin for the Hittites, for the 
first resembles the custom of the Turks; the second that of 
Chinamen. Such customs of dressing the hair or covering 
the head are very persistent in the Orient. 
In one case a priest seems to be ministering before an 
altar, another priest is dragging a ram by the horn, with 
three more rams in the field behind and above; another 
pours a libation upon the foot of a seated goddess. One 
figure is playing a guitar, another blowing a horn, several 
have each a lituus, a musical instrument, depending from the 
hand; a man climbs a ladder half higher than himself and 
consisting of seventeen rounds. One of the great stone 
blocks exhibits six similar figures marching; two have bulls, 
one with something on his back, perhaps an altar; and there 
are two lions on blocks that have been displaced from the 
series—the lion is the most characteristic animal of Hittite 
sculpture. The whole scene seems to be clearly religious, 
not political or military, and is attributed by Professor Sayce 
to the thirteenth century before Christ. 
Eyuk and Boghaz Keoy are five hours apart, and the 
latter was evidently a great capital. It is suggested that it 
was the cool summer abode of the “kings of the Hittites,” 
who were natives of this region, but operated in Syria or 
elsewhere in winter. The space enclosed by a wall is over 
a mile long by a half mile broad, and contains remnants of 
¥IG. 2.— TABLET FROM BOGHAZ KEOY, SHOWING CUNEIFORM CHARACTERS. 
