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Title: History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Maspero, G. (Gaston), 1846-1916 Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry), 1845-1933 McClure, M. L., d. 1918
Subjects: Civilization, Ancient History, Ancient
Publisher: London : Grolier Society
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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1 ■>*-• W- • i 1 Wm m- ..c wm ^y S^ ^ . \^ * A.^ THE ENTKAUCE TO THE SANCTDAKT OF PTEEIA. fairs. The bas-reliefs which decorate them belong to thatsemi-barbarous art which we have already met with in the ^ Drawn by Boudier, from a photograph by Chantre. 398 THE MEDES AND THE SECOND CHALDEAN EMPIRE monuments attributed to the Kh^ti, near the Orontes andEuphrates, on both slopes of the Amanus, in Cihoia, andin the ravines of the Taurus. Long processions of priestsand votaries defile before figures of the gods and goddessesstanding erect upon their sacred animals; in one scene,a tall goddess, a Cybele or an Anaitis, leans affectionately
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OSTE OF THE PROCESSIONS IN THE RAVINE OF PTEKIA.l upon her chosen lover, and seems to draw him with hertowards an image with a lions body and the head of ayouth.^ Pteria and its surrounding hills formed a kind ofnatural fortress which overlooked the whole bend of the ^ Drawn by Paucher-Gudin, from a photograph by Chantre. 2 These bas-reliefs seem to me to have been executed at about the timewith which we are dealing, or perhaps a few years later—in any case, beforethe Persian conquest. THE BATTLE OP THE HALTS 399 Halys; it constituted, in the hands of the Lydians, anoutpost which effectually protected their possessions inPhrygia and Paphlagonia against an attack from the East;in the hands of the Modes it would be a dominant positionwhich would counteract the defensive features of the Halys,and from it they might penetrate into the heart of AsiaMinor without encountering any serious obstacles. Thestruggle between the two sovereigns was not so unequalas might at first appear. No doubt

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