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ho had read the language of the the road linking Damascus with The Inspector giving ovidonon Ancient Hittites who, in the the railway janation of El said that on the 4th inst. the second millennium BC., oxorcisod Muzoirib, and noteworthy for defendant appeared 2008 & cultural and political influence Schumacbar's discovery of a complainant in nane in on the affairs of the world equal hieroglyphic inscripton of the which an ex-employee of the even to that of the Babylonians Pharoh. Rameses II. To the family was charged before Mr: and the Egyptians.

south-east of the village lies the 8. B. B. MoElderry with larceny But the results of the Czech Maslom shrine of Sahrat Eyyub, of a blanket. The present defen- scholar's studios differed funda-in which stands the monolith of dant had said that his mother had mentally from those of Champol-Rameses which the neighbouring visited the country the previous lion, Grotofend, and Sir Hoary Moslems call the stone of Job Rawlinson. Those great deal and greatly rovere.

day, but later, an instructions from Hero on the Magistrate, witness sent a phereret of ancient scripts sought April 4 Hrozny began to dig near constable to No. 1 Bonham Road and found a solution. of hitherto the monolith. This rolic marks and then complainant's mother incomprehensible symbols, but the site of a later Hellenistic was brought to Court. In con- Hrozny, when he found that even shrine, in front of which he sequence of her evidence the late auch an expert on the ancient found the remains of

Bemployee was discharged. Near East as Professor A. H. Amorite shrine where the

Depositions of the case reforred to Sayco could not find the key to a local deity was worshipped. He were produced by Major C. Willson, solution of the so-called "Hittito reade the god's name, preserved first olerk at the Magistracy." hieroglyphs," sot out on another in very worn hieroglyphics, as The case for the prosecution quest. Instead of the Hittite Arkan Saphon. This doify is having closed Mr. Ruas submitted pictographie script, the decipher. ment of which he left to the depicted en face upon a very flat that the evidence of his client was chance which may yet reveal relief with huge horns on his collateral to the case and was not head in the act of receiving the perjury. It might have been in- unknown bilip-i

veneration of Rameses. This convenient to the Court and it gual inscription, written in shrine of bie was a contre of a might have been comtempt of Hittite pictographs and a familiar widespread cult first among the Court, but it was a natural mistake. seript, he turned to the archives Amorites and later among their

His Worship held that the fact of the Hittite capital at Bogbez Aramaono uccessors. Kodi discovered by H. Winckler Greeks adopted this oult in their to the country would have prejudic

The that complainant's mother had gone in 1906-1907, written in cuneiform turn, and the Christique here paid ad the case for the defendant He characters and in the official honour to the memory of the would possibly have been convicted language of the Hittite Kingdom. patient Job,, whom the Moslems but for the evidence of the mother. to find a solution of the problem revere as the Holy Eyyub. of the Hittite speech, and arrived at the surprising conclusion that this tongue: had Indo-European affinities and was allied to the Iranian and Italo Celtic langu

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age groups.

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CANAANITE SCRIPT.

After argument on the point Mr. Russ opened his case. He said that what the defence would say The shrine proved to be sur-was that they honestly believed that rounded by many edificos, Greek the mother. Whu bad said she was and Amorite, in which were disco-guing to the country to collect vored a number of objects. Among rents, had gona and would not To-day it is widely held that these wore a basalt vot, stone ratura till a few days later. She the problem. of the kinship and water basins, pestles and mortars had met her daughter during the character of the Hittite language apeur-beads, Graeco-Roisan and interval and did not go, The has been solved by Hrozny. Byzantine glassware, glass and defendant did not return to the He i8 now

issuing metal armlets, halls, and Roman house on the day before the Beries of works

entitled coine. Dr. Hrezny infers from trial of the coolie and on "Hathitica," relative to Hittite them that the local culture the 4th inat. went atraight philology, history, and archeo-reached its zenith during the to Court thinking. that his logy, and other Hittite stadios, Graeco-Roman period, since a mother had gone to the country as which is being published in Paris, smaller number of the objects was her intention.. and opens with te transcription discovered dated from the older

Perjury is only a criminal and translation into French of a Amorite period. The most im offence (it is not an Irish way of Hittite legal code dating from portant inscription discovered is putting it,) continued Mr. Russ, about 1350 B.C

one written in Canaanite the if it is made deliberately and not The more dooply Dr. Hrozny middle of the first millennium accidentally." penetrated the mysteries of the B.C. Further excavations resulted

If the defendant bad gone home Hittite language the inore clearly in the discovery of a large edifice he would have and a fright on did be perceive the former import-walled with unhown boulders seeing that his mother had not left ance of the Hittites in the nation and paved within with brick, the Colony.

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al politics of the Near East, and which from the form of the The defendent in the witness box. the more how was convinced that Hittite lion depicted on the mono-aid that he bad no reason for our present knowledge of the lith is thought by Hrozny o date keeping his mother out of the case political and cultural life of this from the second millennium B. Cas he was not aware that the coolie people is mainly due to chance. This building seems to be some was in the house with her know. Assuming that the extensive sort of palace. Under the brick ledge. When he said that his region in which

sporadic floor were discovered two granar mother had gone away he assumed relics of the Hittites bave ies, in one of which were baskets that she left because he told her to hitherto been found, two-thirds of still full of blackened corn.

go the previous day.

Dafendant's mother coroborated the story for the defence and the defendant was discharged.

SAGHALIEN CONCESSIONS.

Eastern Asia Minor and the south- On the southern side of the wall era coast of Anatolia, the Upper guarding the main palace entr- Euphrates basin, North-West Впое other buildings were Mesopotamis, and North and Cen-excavated. These dated from the tral Syria, contains much more end of the second or the boginn- important. Hitii'e cultural re- mains, he cherished the hope that ing of the first millennium B. C. on the borders where the Hittites Among them was a grauary con- tainining corn which had came into contact with the two boon det on fire. Behind most civilized nations of their day, these

was found the wall the Egyptians and Babylonians, of some sort of raised platform would be found the bilinguals which evidently led up to what which would give us the key to was later the Hellenistic shrine. the Hittite hieroglyphic script. On the western side was a wall, These considerations led him, the two upper courses of which Tokyo, June 11-A. Japaneso when he had been appointed to were composed of nearly hewn business delegation is proceeding the Chair of Semitic Languages blocks. It mounted by gadations to Mostow with the Ambassador, and Ancicent Oriental History at from south to north, and Dr Mr. Oyiaku, about the 20th, to the Czech University of Prague, Hrozny is of the opinion that at negotiate the details regarding the after the restoration of the Czechts various leaves there stood the Saghalien concessions accord- State, to undertake a scientific expedition to the former terri- upon it the "staturs which he ing to treaty-Reuter.

discovered early in the excava- taries of the Hittites and more tions, mostly fine work of the particularly to the ancient Hellenistic period, particularly

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STATUE OF EROS.

NEGOTIATION AS TO DETAILS,

frontiers where the Kingdom of

three statues of the goddess from there set out on a journey, Khatti marched with the realms Nike, still woll preserved, ropre in a primitively equipped motor- of Egypt and Babylon. The Gosenting a winged female figure car, to Kaisarioh, a large city vernment of Czechoslovakia, the

clad in a long garment full of situated well within the political Czech Adademy of Sciences, and folde, but with the right breast limits of the ancient Hittite Em- wealthy patrons readily con-exposed.

piro. Most of the Cappadocian tibuted to the expenses, and in a

tablete come. from Kaisarieb. short time 500,000: Czech crowns

These show that in the third were placed at his disposal.

The Czecff expedition also dis-millennium B.C. a city existed CUNEIFORM TABLETS. covered large groups of statuary, here which was in constant con- For the first year's explorations including the figure of Eros as anexiou with Babylon, of which it Dr. Hrozoy planned excavations naked boy standing with upraised was more or loss a trade colony. at Sheikh Sa'ad in Basban, a hands behind a horse, which But though Angora had given site which had for ages been wore unfortunately damaged. permission for Dr. Hrozny to ox- associated with the tradition of Mention should also be made of davate two hills near the city on the pious and patient Job; at a well-preserved statue of a rear- the spot where the tablets word! Kaisarich in Asia minor, from ing lioness beside which on the discovered, the local authorities which the market has for many sama pedestal once stood the had not received the necessary years been supplied with the statue of a man, of which, only instructions; and the Government cuneiform" Cappadocian tableta," the feet wero left The rough, Commissioner from Angora, under though it was not definitely etatue of a warrior with a palat-whose suporvision the excava

holmet, known where they wore dis- ed

rosembling that tione had to be carried out, had covered; and at the hitherto un- worn by Bittites in the Egyptian not arrived. Ho therefore condu explored Mesoptamian site of Tal reliefe, is regarded by Dr Hrozny od himself to the examination of ol Wabshak which, he believes, as the work of a pative artist the hills, and ascertained that tho marks the capital of the former dating from about 1000 B.C., and exact place of origin of the Cap- Empire of Mitanni, known to us as Amorite work exhibiting, as do padocian tablets was Kul Topo, from the Tol-ol-Amarna tablets. other remains, traces of Hittite noar the village of Kars Topo. The inbabitants of the village Early last year he proceeded to influence. Constantinople whore Halil Boy, On May 22. Dr. Hrozny ceased soon brought him a number of the Director of the Turkish his oxcavations across Jorian, and inscribed tablets which they had Government Museuma, provided two days later took ship at Beirut discovered in the hill whon dig- him with a firman authorize for Morsins. Thence he travelled ging into the olay, among others ing him to undertake excavato the mountain railway station a fragment with an especially tions at two hills at Kaisarieh of Ulukishla, in the Taurus, and mysterious script

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