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NOTE ON PRE-HELLENIC FINDS

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Les inscriptions des statues et de la table d'offrandes sont reproduites dans les
Monuments divers de Mariette, pl. XCV et XCVl.

NOTE ON PRE-HELLENIC FINDS

. BY .

D. G. hogarth

On the accompanying Plate are représentations of a pre-Hellenic Relief and two
seals found during the past summer. For the présent I must reserve comment upon
them.

Fig. I. A limestone block 4 f X 2 X 1 carved in high relief. The rightlower corner
is broken, and the back left unworked. The block lias formed part of a balustrade or
frieze, of which two other fragments were found. ï am unable to give illustrations of
thèse; on one was a seated goddess, and behind lier remained part of another scène
similar to the one in the Plate. The car and wheel of a chariot, and the archer in it
were visible. Under the goddess is a broken inscription in relief of which only thèse
symbols remain

The second fragment shows a female seated before a cross-legged table of offer-
rings. No inscription remains.

On the principal block is a long inscription in relief of which for the sake of
clearness I append a hand-copy

Thephotograph, published in the Plate, was taken by my friend Mr. V. W. Yorke.

Ail were found in the early part of May 1894; by a peasant digging for building-
stone in a large moundnear the village of Ordasu, one hour north-east of Malatia. The
mound, which is called Arslan Tepe, reads 48° from Malatia and 188° from Eskishehr :

RECUEIL, XVII.

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