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 HiTTiTE Monuments in Phrygia. 205 sinister hand of the hill-fort entrance. In height they average 3 m. each. To judge from outward appearances, the one is a smooth- faced youth, whilst the beard and spirited attitude of the other indicate a man in the vigour of life. The figures are clad in short tunics, fastened at the waist by a belt, in which is stuck a broad- sword. They are apparently without leggings ; but the feet are encased in '* tip-tilted boots." On the head is a tall pointed cap or hood fallinof behind so as to cover the neck and shoulders. A flat band runs round the tiara of the elder man, with an ornament in front akin to the Egyptian uraeus. The figures walk in the same direction ; the left arm is pressed against the body, as if to keep in place some object, now indistinct. The dexter arm is outstretched, as though indicating some point towards the horizon. The right hand of the elder figure is broken. The reader will long ere this have noticed that these figures bear a striking resemblance to scores at lasili-Kaia. The slight innovations which are observable in this instance, the hood for example, may have been a country fashion introduced for con- venience sake ; but the shape of the tiara is not destroyed by it nor by the urseus by which it is adorned ; and all the difference about the sword consists in its being carried at the side, in full view, instead of falling behind. Last, not least, the execution of these figures is precisely the same as that of cognate sculptures in Pteria and the Kalaba lion ; as reference to plan (Fig. 352), which we were first in publishing, will show. The differences which we have enumerated are of small moment, and may be explained on the basis that the monuments at lasill- Kaia and Ghiaour-Kalessi were due to different hands. Each artist, whilst reproducing the main lines and character of the national costume, superadded details of his own creation. Hence these figures may be identified with the Hittite warriors in the procession at lasili-Kaia, save that their demeanour is nobler and such as would not disparage deities. But to what end and how came these colossal figures to be carved in this lonely spot, spared too and cared for by several generations of men which succeeded each other in the country ? To these questions we have no solu- tion to give, and all we can offer is the following hypothesis, which is plausible, if nothing more : these warriors, whose bold outline is plainly seen from the road below, were the heroic leaders of advancing irresistible bands, which first occupied the pass and