Chantre discovered numerous spindle-whorls in the ruins similar to
those discovered at Troy. He also found terra-cotta figurines, among
which the ram is the most plentiful, as well as covers and handles of
vases in the shape of animals’ heads, and some curious hut-urns not
unlike those of Latium. Few bronze objects were met with, but among
them were five flanged axe-heads of the incurved Egyptian Hyksos type,
totally unlike the straight bronze axe-heads from Troy and Angora
(of Egyptian I-XII dynasty form), with which M. Chantre compares
them. The obsidian implements and stone celts were of the ordinary
Asianic pattern. M. Chantre notes that whereas at Troy the terra-cotta
figurines represented the heads of oxen or cows, at Kara Eyuk they were
the heads of sheep, horses, and perhaps dogs.
[142] _Historical Geography of Asia Minor_, ch. i., ii.; _Cities and
Bishoprics of Phrygia_, i. p. xiv.
[143] Labawa, or Labbaya, for whom see the next chapter. A revised
transcript of his letter in Arzawan (Hittite) is given by Knudtzon,
_Die zwei Arzawa-Briefe_, pp. 38–40. The introductory paragraph
should read: _Ata-mu kît Labbaya ... memis-ta Uan-wa-nnas
iskhani-tta-ra atari-ya ueni_.--“To my lord says Labbaya ... thy
servant of Uan (a district west of Aleppo); seven times I prostrate
myself.” In other letters Labbaya is called prince of Rukhizzi, the
Rokhe’s-na of the treaty between Ramses II. and the Hittites.
[144] The facts were first stated in my article in the _Contemporary
Review_, August 1905, pp. 264–77, which is reprinted as chapter vii.
of the present book.
[145] _Journal of the Anthropological Institute_, 1903, xxxiii. pp.
367–400.
[146] By Shalmaneser II. (_Black Obelisk_, 61) and Sargon. Sennacherib
describes his famous campaign against Phœnicia and Judah as made “to
the land of the Hittites.”
[147] _Ilios_, p. 693. What seem to be similar characters on a
seal-cylinder found in the copper-age cemetery of Agia Paraskevi in
Cyprus have recently been published by me in the _Proceedings of the
Society of Biblical Archæology_, June 1906, plate ii. No. xi. See
above, p. 141.
[148] One of these seals, with the name of Tua-is, “the Charioteer,” in
Hittite hieroglyphs, is in the possession of M. de Clercq. Another is
figured by Layard, _Culte de Mithra_, xliv. 3.
[149] See Sayce, _Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia_, pp. 377–9
[150] See Hogarth, “The Zakro Sealings,” in the _Journal of Hellenic
Studies_, xxii. pp. 76–93, and plates vi.-x.
[151] _Transactions of the Society of Biblical Archæology_, 1881, vii.
2, p. 27.
[152] See above, p. 141.
[153] Professor Petrie finds similar marks on Egyptian pottery of the
prehistoric and early dynastic age; see his table of signs in _The
Royal Tombs of the First Dynasty_ (Egypt Exploration Fund), i. p. 32.
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