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DOI Artikel:Hogarth, David George: Note on pre-hellenic finds
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NOTE ON PRE-HELLENIC FINDS
it is about 50 feet high, of irregular shape like the accumulation above a building, being
longest N. to S., and bears no trace of actual building upon it. West of it rise two
smaller mounds and to the south one. There can be little doubt that it forais part of
the oldest Melitene, whose foundation, like that of other mound-cities, tradition ascribed
to Semiramis (Pliny, À7. H.,VI, 3). Trajan refounded it (Procop, de JEdif., III, 4) pro-
bably where Eskishehr stands now, two miles to the north lower down the stream.
Arslan Tepe is two hours distant from the nearest point of the right bank of Euphrates,
and about five hours from the site of Tomisa.
It is worth while to acld here, in confirmation of a statement inade in a previous
article in this Recueil (t. XV, p. 29), that in the course of our journey up the right bank
of the Euphrates we neither saw nor heard of any pre-Hellenic monuments north of the
Tokhma Su. North-eastern Cappadocia seems absolutely devoid of them; they radiate
only south-east, south, and south-west from Boghaz Keui and Eyuk, which stand at
the apex of a triangle whose base is Syria and the sea.
Fig. II. Thèse small objects were obtainecl by purchase in the bazars of Aintab
in north Syria. I have no reason to suppose that they were found at Aintab itself, or
indeecl on any one site. The usual practice of dealers, in being questioned as to the pro-
venance of their wares, is to refer them to the best known ruin in the neighbourhood,
often an Arab castle. In this instance a ruin known as Tel Bashar, 6 hours S. of Aintab
was the reported " find-spot but it seems to be a médias val castle. In addition to the
objects here represented we procured a scarab, gable-shaped seals, cylinders, andbeads,
engraved in the " Hittite " style, but not bearing any " Hittite " symbols; and about
30 stone-implements, principally of jade.
a) A seal-bead of black steatite 1 1/5 inches in diameter.
On the one side are thèse symbols.
L.
R.
On the reverse side are thèse symbols.
NOTE ON PRE-HELLENIC FINDS
it is about 50 feet high, of irregular shape like the accumulation above a building, being
longest N. to S., and bears no trace of actual building upon it. West of it rise two
smaller mounds and to the south one. There can be little doubt that it forais part of
the oldest Melitene, whose foundation, like that of other mound-cities, tradition ascribed
to Semiramis (Pliny, À7. H.,VI, 3). Trajan refounded it (Procop, de JEdif., III, 4) pro-
bably where Eskishehr stands now, two miles to the north lower down the stream.
Arslan Tepe is two hours distant from the nearest point of the right bank of Euphrates,
and about five hours from the site of Tomisa.
It is worth while to acld here, in confirmation of a statement inade in a previous
article in this Recueil (t. XV, p. 29), that in the course of our journey up the right bank
of the Euphrates we neither saw nor heard of any pre-Hellenic monuments north of the
Tokhma Su. North-eastern Cappadocia seems absolutely devoid of them; they radiate
only south-east, south, and south-west from Boghaz Keui and Eyuk, which stand at
the apex of a triangle whose base is Syria and the sea.
Fig. II. Thèse small objects were obtainecl by purchase in the bazars of Aintab
in north Syria. I have no reason to suppose that they were found at Aintab itself, or
indeecl on any one site. The usual practice of dealers, in being questioned as to the pro-
venance of their wares, is to refer them to the best known ruin in the neighbourhood,
often an Arab castle. In this instance a ruin known as Tel Bashar, 6 hours S. of Aintab
was the reported " find-spot but it seems to be a médias val castle. In addition to the
objects here represented we procured a scarab, gable-shaped seals, cylinders, andbeads,
engraved in the " Hittite " style, but not bearing any " Hittite " symbols; and about
30 stone-implements, principally of jade.
a) A seal-bead of black steatite 1 1/5 inches in diameter.
On the one side are thèse symbols.
L.
R.
On the reverse side are thèse symbols.