The encyclopædia britannica; a dictionary of arts, sciences, literature and general information . lated groups offigures, fifteen in number (see for detailed description MurraysGuide to Asia Minor, 1895, pp. 23 ff.). Pictographs accompanymany of the figures. The whole makes the most extensive groupof Hittite remams yet known. Boghaz Keui was never thoroughlyexplored until 1907, the survey of Perrot and Guillaume having beensuperficial only and the excavations of E. Chantre (1894) very 1906 a German expedition under Professor H. Winckler under-took the work, and great numbers of cunei
The encyclopædia britannica; a dictionary of arts, sciences, literature and general information . lated groups offigures, fifteen in number (see for detailed description MurraysGuide to Asia Minor, 1895, pp. 23 ff.). Pictographs accompanymany of the figures. The whole makes the most extensive groupof Hittite remams yet known. Boghaz Keui was never thoroughlyexplored until 1907, the survey of Perrot and Guillaume having beensuperficial only and the excavations of E. Chantre (1894) very 1906 a German expedition under Professor H. Winckler under-took the work, and great numbers of cuneiform tablets were refer to the reigns of at least four kings from Subbiluliuma(=Saplel, see above) to Hattusil II. or Khattusil ( = Khetasar. seeabove). The latter was an ally of Katashmanturgu of Babylon, The Niobe statue near Manisa was not definitely known for Hittite till 1882, when G. Dennis detected pictographs near it. The pseudo-Scsostrcs of Herodotus, already demonstratednon-Egyptian by Roscllini. The second figure was unknown, tillfound by Dr Bcddoe in 1856. 53^ HITTITES. ana powerful enough to write to the Babylonian court as a sovereignof equal standing. His letter shows that he considered the rise ofAssyria a menace to himself. Winckler claims to read Haiti as thename of the possessors of Boghaz Keui, and to find in this namethe proof of the Hittite character of Syro-Cappadocian power andof the imperial predominance of the city. But it remains to beproved whether these tablets were written there, and not rather,being in a foreign script, abroad, like most of the Tell el-Amarnaarchives. O. Puchstcin has cleared and studied important archi-tectural remains, Euyuk; large mound with remains of palaceentered between sphinxes. Sculptured wall-dados, but no Hittiteinscriptions. Cuneiform tablets; some Babylonian, others in anative language. Also inscriptions in early Phrygian characterand language, found in 1894. The most famous of Hittite reliefsis here—a
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