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Sterrett, John R. Sitlington: An Epigraphical journey in Asia Minor: during the summer of 1884
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IN ASIA MINOR.
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way, it could not have avoided the abrupt pass of Ola Kaya, and it is
exactly this pass that makes it necessary to look for it elsewhere.
The only other route is that by way of Derinde, and thence down the
Tokhma Su to Malatia (the ancient Melitene).
August 8. Albistan to Yenikieui, 5 h. 29 m. There is a badly
defaced Hittite inscription in the cemetery of Kutchuk Yapalak.
We traverse the great plain of Albistan. North of Boyuk Yapalak
we enter a narrow valley, which gradually ascends to the plateau on
which Yenikieui is situated.
No. 350.
Ashagha Yapalak. In the cemetery. Letters very faint and
blurred. Copy.
HAEM ETD NAY
AIDADTDN5H
[HMAAAA"All
T H N A ETTTT A I C TTD
August 9. Yenikieui, via Arslan Tash, to Koz Agha, 6 h. 12 m.
We visited Arslan Tash and got photographs of the lions, discovered
,by von Moltke. They once stood on either side of a gateway just
as the Assyrian Cherubim did. The Wolfe Expedition to Babylonia
■discovered similar lions at Arslan Tash in the Serudj Ova, a day's
journey southeast of Biredjik in Mesopotamia. These Mesopotamian
lions are of much better workmanship, and besides are better pre-
served. But the two pairs of lions belong, no doubt, to the same
epoch.
The road southeast of Boyiik Yapalak traverses an open rolling
country; it is barren, for the most part, there being no means of
irrigating it.
August 11. Koz Agha to Pulat, 9 h. 11 m. A journey of great
difficulty, especially east of the Soghud Su, where the ascent to the
pass of Ola Kaya Dagh begins. The country is very rough. The
mountains are volcanic. The time from Koz Agha to the summit of
the pass of Ola Kaya is 7 h. 35 m. The descent is very abrupt, and
in places progress is almost impossible. In 1 h. 28 m. from the sum-
mit of the pass we reach the plain of Pulat.
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way, it could not have avoided the abrupt pass of Ola Kaya, and it is
exactly this pass that makes it necessary to look for it elsewhere.
The only other route is that by way of Derinde, and thence down the
Tokhma Su to Malatia (the ancient Melitene).
August 8. Albistan to Yenikieui, 5 h. 29 m. There is a badly
defaced Hittite inscription in the cemetery of Kutchuk Yapalak.
We traverse the great plain of Albistan. North of Boyuk Yapalak
we enter a narrow valley, which gradually ascends to the plateau on
which Yenikieui is situated.
No. 350.
Ashagha Yapalak. In the cemetery. Letters very faint and
blurred. Copy.
HAEM ETD NAY
AIDADTDN5H
[HMAAAA"All
T H N A ETTTT A I C TTD
August 9. Yenikieui, via Arslan Tash, to Koz Agha, 6 h. 12 m.
We visited Arslan Tash and got photographs of the lions, discovered
,by von Moltke. They once stood on either side of a gateway just
as the Assyrian Cherubim did. The Wolfe Expedition to Babylonia
■discovered similar lions at Arslan Tash in the Serudj Ova, a day's
journey southeast of Biredjik in Mesopotamia. These Mesopotamian
lions are of much better workmanship, and besides are better pre-
served. But the two pairs of lions belong, no doubt, to the same
epoch.
The road southeast of Boyiik Yapalak traverses an open rolling
country; it is barren, for the most part, there being no means of
irrigating it.
August 11. Koz Agha to Pulat, 9 h. 11 m. A journey of great
difficulty, especially east of the Soghud Su, where the ascent to the
pass of Ola Kaya Dagh begins. The country is very rough. The
mountains are volcanic. The time from Koz Agha to the summit of
the pass of Ola Kaya is 7 h. 35 m. The descent is very abrupt, and
in places progress is almost impossible. In 1 h. 28 m. from the sum-
mit of the pass we reach the plain of Pulat.