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 i68 A History of Art in Sardinia and Jud^a. side the sculptured plane has been pulled about to build the foun- tain, in the erecting of which the smaller stones were freely used, so that to examine the whole series of pictures would necessitate the demolition of the fountain, and the moving of the larger stones which strew the ground. In June, 1881, Sir C. Wilson and Mr. Ramsay, on their way to Sivas, stopped at Eyuk, to see its ruins. They made no excava- tions, but had some of the blocks turned about, in order to examine Fig. 335.— Carving at Eyuk. Plate LVI. the carving upon them ; when on a stone, facing the unnumbered one left of No. 17, they lighted upon a picture of the highest interest, of which, unfortunately, no sketch was made ; so that we are reduced to Mr. Ramsay's verbal description, from which we quote : '' On the right of the picture, carved upon one of the faces of the slab, is a seated goddess ; her feet rest upon a foot- stool, the right being stretched out a little in front. The figure is much worn, but what is left agrees in every particular with that published by Perrot (in his Exploration Archdologique, Plate LXVL). Towards this goddess moves a procession led by a figure, in which, with Perrot, I incline to recognize the eunuch high