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 HiTTiTE Monuments in Phrygia. 207 Syria. The surface of the stone is much defaced, so that charac- teristic details, which are so helpful in tracing the origin of any decoration, are absent or at any rate nearly all obliterated. The only data we have for connecting it with Cappadocian art are the peculiar signs above the altar in front of the figure. One of these is the representation of a bird, a hieroglyph which is Fig. 353. — Carving at Doghanlou-Deresi. After Ramsay. Height, 71c. perhaps oftener repeated than any other in the inscribed stones of Hamath, lerabis, Aleppo, etc. The next character to which I would draw attention is the cap, which it will be remembered was likewise found upon the lintel of an old doorway in Cilicia (Fig. 274).^ Nor is this all; close to where this sculpture was discovered is a tumulus, out of which Mr. Ramsay unearthed an inscription with undeniable Hittite hieroglyphs.^ ^ See also last line of inscription, Fig. 256. " Mr. Ramsay, in 1882 {Journal, etc., torn. ill. p. 10), had not made up bis mind as to the position of the sign under notice ; but he is now in favour of a Hittite