Hittite Inscriptions: Certain Newly Discovered Inscriptions, Together with Revised Copies of a Number Hitherto Known and Still in Situ, Representing a Portion of the Results of the Cornell Expedition to Asia Minor and the Assyro-Babylonian Orient |
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A. T. OLMSTEAD Aghansyq Ajem Aleppo appear Arch Argaeus Arslan Tash Asarjyq Asia Minor ASSYRO-BABYLONIAN ORIENT badly weathered basalt Belck Berl Bibl block Boghaz Köi Boghcha monument bull Caesarea Circassian cone containing Cornell Expedition decipherment Derende doubtless Egri Köi excavation Expedition to Asia face fairly well preserved Ferakhdin figure four lines fragments Garstang Gürün head Hittite characters Hittite inscription Hittite language hours east incised characters Inschrift Isbekjür Ivriz J. E. WRENCH Jerphanion Jour known Kölit Oghlu Yaila Kötü Qale left end libation limestone lion lituus Liverpool Annals Mahalich Malatia Messerschmidt mill race mound Museum Nishan Tash photograph PLATE XXVII portion possible Proc Professor Sterrett published Qara Burun Qara Dagh Quru Bel represents rock Samsat Sayce Sayce's scription sculpture seems seen Sher'a side signs squeeze paper stela stone Tekir Devrent Teshub tetrahedron tumuli uninscribed upper glen village اد ار 미미
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Page 7 - ... texts. It is arranged in broad horizontal lines separated by narrow bands in relief: exactly the arrangement which Prof. Hirschfeld considers characteristic of the eastern group. M. Perrot's description is in several respects inaccurate: he depends partly on his recollection, partly on a photograph. My own impression was that with time and study, a person accustomed to the > hieroglyphics would be able to copy at least parts of it. But...
Page 32 - Each of the four blocks is rough on one side, showing that the monument originally stood against the wall. The roughness of the lower part of the block first found indicates that this was the base, it having doubtless been set in the ground or inserted into a rock socket. On the upper portion of the three sides were three brief Hittite inscriptions, so FIG.
Page 37 - Isbckjiir. richly adorned robe. The wall obviously represents that of a city and the drawing of some of the courses is so poor and the courses themselves are so irregular that one could well believe that the sculptor was picturing a part of the city wall in which a breach had been repaired. At the right is depicted a curved...
Page 8 - At the present time the carving simulates a series of animal forms, arranged in pairs facing one another, and (in the second row) of winged creatures placed singly and separated by dividing lines from one another. In the ninth row there is a suggestion of bulls facing one another in pairs, with lowered heads. Doubtless this is...
Page 35 - Above him and standing on his back was a personage, as is shown by the feet with upturned shoes and the adorned garment hem. Beneath the bull are the nine strokes found in so many inscriptions, doubtless the heading or opening line of the inscription on the right side of the lowest block.
Page 37 - Two similar figures occupy the other sculptured sides. That which faced to the front was a being standing on mountains which are represented by a sort of fish scale pattern, the other stands on a wall.
Page 37 - The block containing the heads represents these two figures as in the act of drinking from cups. The ears of all three are very large and the facial FIG.
Page 23 - A mound with natural core divides the village into two parts, that to the south being the Circassian section and that to the north Turkish.
Page 23 - A fragment of an incised inscription cut on adjacent faces of a broken block of black basalt. The characters are made with extreme care and are almost perfectly preserved...
Page 8 - Hittite hieroglyphics, and probably this is correct; but owing to its extremely weathered state we do not believe it possible now to recognize the signs with any certainty, though one traveller claims to have deciphered four lines in comparatively FIG.