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 198 A History of Art in Sardinia and Judaea. § 2. — Hittite Monume7its in Phrygia, Some of the monuments we are about to describe were found in the province which, about a century before our era, began to be called Galatia, from the bands which settled in it after their dis- comfiture at the hands of the kings of Pergamus. It is a name that we shall not adopt, but will adhere to the old appellation, inasmuch as we are concerned with an age when these tribes were not. Phrygia consists of that tract of land which extends from the Fig. 350.— The Kalaba Lion. Exploration, Plate XXXII. left bank of the Halys to the lower course of the Sangarius, the Hermus, and Maeander, on to the western edge of the Anatolian plateau. The Halys," wrote Herodotus, is the line of demar- cation between Cappadocia and Phrygia."' The early Greeks connected likewise the Phrygian empire and the myths pertaining thereto with the Sangarius valley.^ Now the monuments which will occupy our attention for a while, are thickly distributed about the springs which feed the Sangarius. The large town of Angora, ancient Ancyra, became the capital ' Herodotus, i. 72. ^ homer, Iliad., iii. 187 ; xvi. 719.