[128] As well as other sculptured and inscribed stones; see Winckler: Preliminary Report of Excavations at Boghaz Keui, 1907. (_Mitteilungen der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft_, No. 35, Dec. 1907), figs. 6, 7, pp. 57, 58. [129] Hist. Relations of Phrygia and Cappadocia (_Jour. Roy. Asiatic Soc._, xv., Pl. I.), p. 124. [130] Perrot and Chipiez, _Art in ... Asia Minor_, ii. etc., pp. 214 and ff.; also Hamilton, _Researches_, etc., ii., pp. 350, 351; and _Revue Arch._, 3, v. pp. 257-264, and Pls. XI., XII. [131] (_a_) A Hittite invasion preceded the overthrow of the First Babylonian Dynasty. The date in the eighteenth century B.C. assigned by King (_Chronicles_, etc., i. p. 137) is accepted by Meyer, but thought by Sayce and others to be too late. (_b_) The Egyptian annals, diplomatic letters, mural decorations, etc., make frequent mention of the Kheta from the 33rd year of Thothmes III. (about B.C. 1471) until the time of Rameses III., early in the twelfth century B.C. There is an early appearance of the group of signs reading ‘Kheta’ on a stela of the Twelfth Dynasty (Louvre, CI.); some philologists are disposed to regard the group in this instance as forming part of a longer word—a unique instance which implies at any rate familiarity with the word Kheta in the Twelfth Dynasty. It is more probable, Mr. Griffith tells us, that the group is really to be translated ‘Kheta’ though written (under circumstances that can be explained philologically) with a false determinative. The Babylonian evidence now prepares us for this early appearance of the name. (_c_) In the Assyrian records the earliest reference to the Hatti seems to be in the reign of Shalmaneser I., about 1320 B.C., but the name is not found recurring until the time of Tiglath Pileser I., about 1120 B.C.: Sargon (B.C. 721-704) seems finally to have subjected and disunited their principalities in N. Syria. [132] Winckler, _Report_, _cit._, especially pp. 27 and ff. [133] See chap. v., Part 3, pp. 299, 314. [134] See chap. v., Part 2, pp. 271-273. [135] See above, pp. 55, 56; cf. also Xenophon, _Anabasis_, v. 4-30. [136] The inscriptions still largely hold their secrets. The cause would seem to be chiefly the imperfections in our copies, for Professor Sayce’s system (described in the _Proc. Soc. Bibl. Arch._, 1904, _et seqq._) has consistently developed geographical and local names corroborated by the circumstances of discovery. The language seems to be unlike any that is known, and to vary in localities. [137] The inscribed round-topped stone on its pedestal, on a rise of ground near Bogche, overlooking the Halys. See Pl. XLVIII. [138] Like the massive altar on the pass of Kuru-Bel. See p. 147. [139] _E.g._ the lions found near Derendeh; the obelisk of Izgîn, and the columnar figure from Palanga. See pp. 141, 145.