Flügel memorial volume . ental. I have not observed that Conder makes any asso- ^ The Hittites and their Language, Edinburgh, 1898. = TSBA. 5/31, 7/278. - The Empire of the Hittites, 126 etc. =^ The Alphabet, 2/123. ^° Thumb, Handbuch der griechischen Dialekte, vii and 285 etc. For the present, see Evans, Scripta Minoa, 1/68 etc. ^ Evans, Scripta Minoa, 1/242-3. THE TARCONDEMUS BOSS HEMPL 137 ciation of Hittite and Cyprian signs for which there is justification, withthe one exception of the arrow ^ov {ce/ca), § 10. Where Cypriansigns fail him, he freely draws upon linear Babylonian. But whe
Flügel memorial volume . ental. I have not observed that Conder makes any asso- ^ The Hittites and their Language, Edinburgh, 1898. = TSBA. 5/31, 7/278. - The Empire of the Hittites, 126 etc. =^ The Alphabet, 2/123. ^° Thumb, Handbuch der griechischen Dialekte, vii and 285 etc. For the present, see Evans, Scripta Minoa, 1/68 etc. ^ Evans, Scripta Minoa, 1/242-3. THE TARCONDEMUS BOSS HEMPL 137 ciation of Hittite and Cyprian signs for which there is justification, withthe one exception of the arrow ^ov {ce/ca), § 10. Where Cypriansigns fail him, he freely draws upon linear Babylonian. But whetherconnecting Hittite characters with Cyprian or Babylonian, Conder isguided wholly by similarity of form, and in many cases it takes the eyeof faith to discover the similarity. He thus believes he has found inHittite a Mongolian tongue. The best test of the value of his methodis the careful reading of a portion of his exposition. It may safely beasserted that there probably is no one now who has faith in The Tarcondemus Boss showing the reverse of the original. (W. Wright, The Empire of the Hittites, 156, 2d ed. 165.) 19. The three scholars who are regarded as having made the mostserious attempts to read Hittite are Professor Sayce ^* of Oxford, Pro-fessor Jensen ^^ of Marburg, and R. Campbell Thompson.^° It has longbeen recognized that the key to Hittite speech should lie in the successfulinterpretation of the bilingual text on the Tarcondemus Boss; and thisbelief has never been abandoned except as a result of ones failure todecipher the text. I shall, therefore, present in this paper the interpre-tations that these three scholars have offered of the legend on the Boss,from which one may judge their methods and results. 20. In criticizing the work of Professor Sayce, as I often have todo, I find myself in a very embarrassing situation. What he has done Sayces work appeared in many papers published chiefly in the Transactionsand Proceedings of the Society of
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