The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . estivals were very ancient, and their institution, if not the method ofcelebrating them, may go back to the time of the Hittite empire (Eajisat-Hogakth, Pre-hellenicjilonuments of Cappadocia, in the Secueil de Travaux, vol. siv. p. 77, etseq.). The description of the battle of Qodshil in tlie time of Ramses II. shows us the King of theKhati surrounded by his vassals (see the passage in pp. 397,398 of the present work). The evidenceof the existence of a similar feudal organisation from the time of the XVIII dynasty is furnishedby a lette
The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . estivals were very ancient, and their institution, if not the method ofcelebrating them, may go back to the time of the Hittite empire (Eajisat-Hogakth, Pre-hellenicjilonuments of Cappadocia, in the Secueil de Travaux, vol. siv. p. 77, etseq.). The description of the battle of Qodshil in tlie time of Ramses II. shows us the King of theKhati surrounded by his vassals (see the passage in pp. 397,398 of the present work). The evidenceof the existence of a similar feudal organisation from the time of the XVIII dynasty is furnishedby a letter of Dushratta, King of Mitanni, where he relates to Ameuothes IV. the revolt of his brotherArtassumara (see p. 298 of the present work), and speaks of tbe htlp which one of the neighbouringchiefs, Pirkhi, and all the Khati had given to the rebel. * The passages bearing upon the weapons of the Khati have been put together by W. MaxMuLLEB, Asien und Europa nach aliUgypiischen DeulnniHerii, pp. 324-329. POLITICAL AND MILITARY OROANISATION OF THE KHATL 357. A HITTITE CHARIOT WITH ITS THREE OCCOPANTS. being sometimes quite square, at other times rudely curved. It was boundtogether in the front by two disks of inetal, and strengthened by strips ofcopper or bronze, which were sometimes plated with silver or gold. Therewere no quiver-cases as in Egyptian chariots, for the Ilittite charioteers rarelyresorted to the bow and arrow. The occupants of a chariot were three innumber—the driver; the shield-bearer, whose ofiSce it was to protect his com-panions by means of a shield,sometimes of a round form,with a segment taken outon each side, and some-times square; and finally,the warrior, with his swordand lance. The Hittiteprinces wliom fortune hadbrought into relations withThutmosis III. and Ameno-thes II. were not able toavail themselves properly of the latent forces around them. It was owing probably to the feebleness of theircharacter or to the turbulence of their barons that we must
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