Explorations in Bible lands during the 19th century - H. V. Hilprecht

DURING 19 CENTURY: IIITTITES 757
sculptures of apparently the same origin having been found.
To name the more important of them, I mention those in
the pass of Karabel between Sart (Sardis) and Smyrna (referred
to above) as belonging to the western part of Asia
Minor; and those at Boghazkoi and Uyuk north of the
lower course of the Halys as coming from the north;
while
between these two districts in the west and north we have
examples from Beikoi (northeast of Afiun-Karahissar) and
from Giaur-Kalesi (southwest of Angora). Besides there
are others from Kolitolu and Iflatunbunar, northeast and
east of the Beishehr Lake. West of the Taurus and Anti-
Taurus we notice inscriptions
from the neighborhood
of Bulgharmaden
and Ivriz, from Bor and
Andaval, from Fraktin
and from Akrak, northeast
of Kaisariye (Caesarea).
In Syria we have those
from Hama (Hamath)
and Aleppo, from Iskanderun
and (southeast of
the latter) from Kirtshoghlu,
and especially those from Jerabis on the
Euphrates,
which lies in the territory, perhaps on the very site, of the ancient
Karkemish. From the region between the Euphrates
and Anti-Taurus we have examples from Mar'ash and from
Samsat on the Euphrates, from Izgin (west of Albistan),
from
Hittite Bowl from Babvlon
Palanga and from Giirun, from Ordasu near Malatya
(the ancient Melitene), and lastly from Birejik (north of
Jerabis) on the east bank of the Euphrates. Of the inscriptions
known to have been discovered in regions different
from where they were originally cut, by far the most important
are the above-mentioned inscription
from the ruins
of Babylon upon some sort of a bowl, and the recently dis-