DOI Artikel:
Sterrett, John R. Sitlington: The Wolfe expedition to Asia Minor
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.8680#0057
TO ASIA MINOR.
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rock, immediately beneath the hunting scene. On the left of the
door, from the standpoint of the spectator, is a warrior-huntsman
mounted on a rampant horse. In his right hand he holds aloft over
his head a spear, which he is in the act of hurling. Beneath the
horse are four diminutive human figures ; on the right of the spec-
tator is an erect, naked male figure; on his left is an erect, headless
female figure, with arms stretched out at right angles to her body.
On the left of the woman lies a naked dead man, whose head is nearest
the woman. In the background lies a second naked dead man ; his
head almost touches that of the standing male figure. The rest of
the front of the tomb is filled with wild goats and dogs. The goats
number ninety-eight, the dogs five. The side of the tomb on the
right of the spectator contains two shields, and eight wild goats of
larger size than those depicted on the front. The wild goat is still
common in the Taurus.
Five minutes above this tomb the Gok Su emerges from a great
canon with almost perpendicular bluffs of solid rock. These bluffs
contain rock-cut dwellings, or tombs, which are said to be inaccessi-
ble at the present day. The place bears the name of Ak Yapti, or
Ak Kale.
The river is certainly called Gok Su by every one, and the canon
is Gok Deresi. Consequently the name given by Fischer to the
river, Buzakdje Tchai, must be dropped. The people of this region
know nothing of a Buzakdje Tchai. It is almost impossible to get
correct information concerning the topography of the country from
the villagers. Their ignorance of their immediate surroundings is
astonishing; they rarely know the names of the mountains outside
of their own little district, and not infrequently they have not so
much as heard of villages only six hours distant from their own vil-
lage. Owing to this fact, the work of the topographical traveller in
this mountainous region is rendered most difficult.
The Gok Su is large, even here. Alata is not on this branch of
the Gok Su at all, as Fischer thought, but is far south on the Alata
Su, which flows in a northerly direction from Alata to a point three
to four hours south of Ak Yapti, when it turns and flows eastward to
unite with this branch of the Gok Su. Polat is on a level with
Saraidjik and Yil Bei, the intervening district being an elevated
plateau cut in two by the great canon of Gok Su.
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rock, immediately beneath the hunting scene. On the left of the
door, from the standpoint of the spectator, is a warrior-huntsman
mounted on a rampant horse. In his right hand he holds aloft over
his head a spear, which he is in the act of hurling. Beneath the
horse are four diminutive human figures ; on the right of the spec-
tator is an erect, naked male figure; on his left is an erect, headless
female figure, with arms stretched out at right angles to her body.
On the left of the woman lies a naked dead man, whose head is nearest
the woman. In the background lies a second naked dead man ; his
head almost touches that of the standing male figure. The rest of
the front of the tomb is filled with wild goats and dogs. The goats
number ninety-eight, the dogs five. The side of the tomb on the
right of the spectator contains two shields, and eight wild goats of
larger size than those depicted on the front. The wild goat is still
common in the Taurus.
Five minutes above this tomb the Gok Su emerges from a great
canon with almost perpendicular bluffs of solid rock. These bluffs
contain rock-cut dwellings, or tombs, which are said to be inaccessi-
ble at the present day. The place bears the name of Ak Yapti, or
Ak Kale.
The river is certainly called Gok Su by every one, and the canon
is Gok Deresi. Consequently the name given by Fischer to the
river, Buzakdje Tchai, must be dropped. The people of this region
know nothing of a Buzakdje Tchai. It is almost impossible to get
correct information concerning the topography of the country from
the villagers. Their ignorance of their immediate surroundings is
astonishing; they rarely know the names of the mountains outside
of their own little district, and not infrequently they have not so
much as heard of villages only six hours distant from their own vil-
lage. Owing to this fact, the work of the topographical traveller in
this mountainous region is rendered most difficult.
The Gok Su is large, even here. Alata is not on this branch of
the Gok Su at all, as Fischer thought, but is far south on the Alata
Su, which flows in a northerly direction from Alata to a point three
to four hours south of Ak Yapti, when it turns and flows eastward to
unite with this branch of the Gok Su. Polat is on a level with
Saraidjik and Yil Bei, the intervening district being an elevated
plateau cut in two by the great canon of Gok Su.