Lempriere, in his Classical Dictionary, under the above title, gives the
following:
A district of Asia Minor forming the southwestern quarter of Phrygia.
The origin of its name and inhabitants, the Lycaones, is lost in
obscurity. * * * Our first acquaintance with this region is in the
relation of the expedition of the younger Cyprus. Its limits varied at
different times. At first it extended eastward from Iconium 23
geographical miles, and was separated from Cilicia on the south by the
range of Mount Taurus, comprehending a large portion of what in later
times was termed Cataonia.
Count Goblet d'Alviella,[128] quoting Perrot and Chipiez,[129] states that
the Hittites introduced the Swastika on a bas-relief of Ibriz, Lycaonia,
where it forms a border of the robe of a king or priest offering a
sacrifice to a god.