230 REV. G. E. WHITE, ON A VISIT TO THE 
the throne, why not a model to the Greek? The suggestion 
is made for what it may be worth. 
The most important sculptures at Boghaz Keoy are those 
of Yazili Kaza, two miles from the ancient town. Here 
again the design is devotional, not military. The larger of 
two rock galleries contains on its sides a double procession 
meeting in the middle. The figures are like those at Eyuk, 
but more in number and of greater variety. The skull-cap 
gives place to high and flat-topped, or high and conical caps, 
the peak sometimes drawn forward in the “ Phrygian” style. 
Lions, tigers, and double-headed eagles support various 
human forms. Others stand on mountain summits, or on 
the heads of men. At the head of the two processions, 
which contain more than three score figures, a priest and a 
priestess of gigantic size meet each other with peculiar 
symbols in their hands. Would that the key to all this 
were known to us; that we understood what were the 
thoughts in the minds of the men who carved these images 
in the rocks long before the time of our Lord! The Hittites 
faded from history 700 B.c. 
The smaller of the Yazili Kaya rock galleries contains 
other figures like those in the larger. One interesting series 
of twelve men seem to be reapers, each with his sickle over 
his shoulder, but they may be soldiers marching with swords. 
Many places in the region were described to us by the 
villagers as having “idols and writing,” or ‘lions and dogs,” 
etc., some that we were able to examine yielding nothing 
interesting. Rock-hewn tombs with Doric columns, and a 
spiral stairway cut through solid rock down to a river, but 
with no trace of a castle above, aroused our curiosity. 
One place, however, the village of Eski Yapar, one hour 
west of Alaja, deserves special mention. It is built like 
Eyuk on a flat mound in an open plain, and discovers 
peculiar stones to the inhabitants when they dig. Apparently 
the débris of an Oriental village occupied for generations 
had lifted the very site of the place up to the height ofa 
man above the plain. Here we found several Greek inscrip- 
tions on stones used as tombstones, perhaps a thousand 
years ago. A round column inverted and half buried proved 
to be a Roman milestone with the name Cesar plainly to be 
read on it. Apparently it was a milestone of Antoninus 
Pius, well nigh two thousand years ago, set up to guide 
travellers on roads long since forgotten. Then a villager 
invited us to look at a queer stone built into the corner of 
