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 RELIGIOUS ARCHITECTURE. '47 monuments of Hittite art, both about the sphinxes at Eyuk, 1 and the colossal figures of the facade at Eflatoun. 2 Curve and ringlet, turned outwardly at the end, are identical in all. Finally, to complete the series, we will cite a last monument, a shrine found on the rim of the plateau, right over the path which leads to it. The surface of the stela is dressed with care, but void of ornament. On the other hand, close by, on another part of the rock, is a figure which, despite its diminutive size and roughness of make, at once reminded M. Ramsay of the FIG. 107. Figure of Cybele. Journal, 1882, Plate XLII. colossal Cybele on Sipylus (Fig. 107, 11 in map). Seen full face, the pose is that of a sitting figure, for the knees stand out 10 c. from the body. The right hand has disappeared, but in the left is carried a shallow bowl (phiale), the one attribute most sedulously preserved in Grecian art to the Asiatic goddess. That this picture was intended as a representation of Cybele is confirmed by the inscription MATAP KTBIAE, to be read over a pedestal of the same nature in the necropolis of Ayazeen (18 in map). In this figure, which we recognize as Cybele, the features, as on the stela just described, are not indicated, and the head is a mere round ball. This same conventional treatment of the divine 1 Hist, of Art, torn. iv. Figs. 323, 327. 4 Ibid.) torn. iv. p. 737.