146 HISTORY OF ART IN ANTIQUITY. a kind of milestone rounded at the top, seemingly of the nature of a boetulus, sacred stone. That which justifies us in attributing a holy character to the stone in question is the fact that it re- appears in another monument situated in the centre of this plateau (Fig. 1 06, ii in map), whose rude ornamentation al- lows us to guess its '"^ true import; this FIG. 105. Rock-cut altar. Section through axis. ^i i appears in the shape of two concentric circles or discs carved side by side on the FIG. 106. Rock-cut altar. From drawing and photograph of Ramsay. stela. The curved lines enframing them, which terminate on each side in a curl, bring to mind the head-dress of the Egyptian Hathor, 1 an arrangement we observed in Asia Minor in the 1 Hist, of Art, torn. i. Figs. 40, 342, 343.
