[132] Unless we except the gold and silver ornaments found on the body of a woman in a deserted house at Taanach, which, as Dr. Sellin says, are by themselves sufficient to remove “all grounds for doubting such accounts as those in Joshua vii. 21, and Judges viii. 26” (_Eine Nachlese auf dem Tell Ta’annek_, p. 32). [133] _Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society_, New Series, xiv. 3, 4, pp. 377–732. [134] Eustathius on Dion. Perieget. 767. See Lehmann in the _Zeitschrift für Assyriologie_, 1894, pp. 90 and 358–60. [135] The Vannic kings always call themselves kings, not of the Khaldians, but of Biainas or Bianas, the Byana of Ptolemy, the Van of to-day. [136] See more especially Belck’s comparison of the Vannic pottery with that of the Assyrian colony of Kara Eyuk, near Kaisariyeh, in the _Verhandlungen der Berliner anthropologischen Gesellschaft_, December 1901, p. 493. Besides the highly-polished lustrous red ware, he found at Kara Eyuk fragments of the same wheel-made wine-jars, “of gigantic size,” which characterized Toprak Kaleh, near Van. Similar jars, as well as lustrous red pottery, were discovered by Schliemann in the “prehistoric” strata at Troy. The animals’ heads in terra-cotta found at Kara Eyuk are stated by Dr. Belck to be similar to those of the Digalla Tepé, near Urumiya. For further details see _infra._ [137] See Pinches in the _Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society_, 1897, pp. 589–613; and myself in the _Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archæology_, 1897, p. 286. [138] Thus we find from the Cappadocian cuneiform tablets discovered at Kara Eyuk, north-east of Kaisariyeh, that time was reckoned by the annual succession of officers called _limmi_ as in Assyria. [139] _Dendereh_, p. 62. [140] Chantre, _Mission en Cappadoce_, pp. 71–91. [141] See Belck, _Verhandlungen der Berliner anthropologischen Gesellschaft_, December 1901, p. 493; and the admirable plates, iii., vii.–xiv., in Chantre, _Mission en Cappadoce_. As has been already mentioned (_supra_, p. 166), Dr. Belck noticed at Kara Eyuk coarse sherds of great thickness coming from wine-jars similar to those of Toprak Kaleh. The black vases with long spouts have been found at Yortan and Boz Eyuk in Phrygia; long-spouted vases of yellow ware with geometrical patterns in maroon-red on the site of Gordium.