. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . thoughsporadically of somewhat earlier intrusion, first becomes frequent on seals inthe time of Hammurabi. He has beenidentified with the Western Adad of thePalestinian region, closely connected withthe Hebrew Jahveh. As Amurrtj, theAmorite God, he naturally came to thefore under the Amorite First Dynasty ofBabylonia, the beginnings of which havebeen now astronomically fixed at 2225 *The date of Hammurabis accession hason this basis been fix
. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . thoughsporadically of somewhat earlier intrusion, first becomes frequent on seals inthe time of Hammurabi. He has beenidentified with the Western Adad of thePalestinian region, closely connected withthe Hebrew Jahveh. As Amurrtj, theAmorite God, he naturally came to thefore under the Amorite First Dynasty ofBabylonia, the beginnings of which havebeen now astronomically fixed at 2225 *The date of Hammurabis accession hason this basis been fixed at 2123 The cylinder itself must be regardedas an early example of its class, and its freshcondition tends to show that it had not beenlong in circulation. This evidence whichpoints to a date round about 2000 b. c. throws new chronological light on theFirst Middle Minoan Period. The cylinder was associated with pottery ofthe mature M. M. I « class ^ and thus approximately corresponds in date withthe foundation of the Knossian Palace. This result gains additional Thureau-Dangin, Za Chronologie de la A good example of this God (otherwise. Fig. 146. Babylonian Cylinder ofHaematite : Platanos. Dynastie de Larsa (Rev. dAssyriologie, xv. i(1918) ). Professor Sayce, to whom I owe muchinformation on this subject, prefers c. 2500 the beginning of this Dynasty. See on this Dr. S. Langdon, Tammuz andIshtar (OxioxA, 1914), pp. no, iii, &c. Hayes Ward, Seal Cylinders of WesternAsia, p. 176, observes that it is rare for thisfigure to appear before the time of Hammurabi,frequent as it is after that period. I do notremember to have seen it on any case tabletsof the time of the kings of Ur and of Gudea. Ramman Martu), adored by Shala, is given,op. cit., p. 77, Fig. 207; cf., too, p. 178 seqq.,Figs. 480, 481. * Kugler, Sfernkunde und Sterndienst in^a(5e/(Mtinster,,i9i2), II. Theil, i. Heft. ° The pottery was examined for me in theCandia Museum by Dr. Mackenzie. It repre-sents t
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