. Hilprecht anniversary volume. Studies in Assyriology and archaeology dedicated to Hermann V. Hilprecht upon the twenty-fifth anniversary of his doctorate and his fiftieth birthday (July 28). ve shown that Babylonian culture exer-cised a great influence upon Asia Minor at a comparatively earlydate. Asia Minor was the home of the metals that were broughtto Assyria and Babylonia by the valley of the Euphrates, and 5] SAYCE, THE ORIGIN OF THE GREEK LAMP 8l an Assyrian military and trading colony was settled near Kaisa-riyeh in Cappadocia at a site now called Kara Eyuk as earlyas the Khammu-rabi
. Hilprecht anniversary volume. Studies in Assyriology and archaeology dedicated to Hermann V. Hilprecht upon the twenty-fifth anniversary of his doctorate and his fiftieth birthday (July 28). ve shown that Babylonian culture exer-cised a great influence upon Asia Minor at a comparatively earlydate. Asia Minor was the home of the metals that were broughtto Assyria and Babylonia by the valley of the Euphrates, and 5] SAYCE, THE ORIGIN OF THE GREEK LAMP 8l an Assyrian military and trading colony was settled near Kaisa-riyeh in Cappadocia at a site now called Kara Eyuk as earlyas the Khammu-rabi age. It was from northern Asia Minorthat bronze seems to have first made its way to Assyria andCanaan, 2 and the painted pottery of the pre-Israelitish strataat Gezer and Lachish in Palestine has been traced back to theHittite region north of the Halys. 3 The cuneiform system ofwriting was introduced among the Hittite tribes of Asia Minoralong with the Assyro-Babylonian language, and libraries or ar-chive-chambers filled with clay tablets were established at BoghazKeui, the Hittite capital, in the Mosaic age. Hittite art passedunder Babylonian influence so as to become what I described. Bronze lamp from Boghaz Keui. it many years ago as being: a modified form of Bab}-lonianart. •? Along with art, the religion of Asia Minor also becameBabylonianised; the native fetishes and nature-worship were re-placed by gods in human form, whose figures were sculpturedon the rocks or engraved upon seals, and the gods were furthergrouped in triads in the Babylonian fashion. The compositedivine symbols of Babylonia were introduced among the Asiaticpopulations; the eagle of Lagas was transported to the Hittite 1 Sayce: The Cappadocian Cuneiform Tablets in Babyloniaca, 1907. ^ 2 Sayce: The Aichaeobgy of the Otneiform Inscriptions, pp. 61 —6. 3 J. L. Myres: Jonrnal of the Anthropological Insiititte, XXXIII, pp. 2>^Tsçç. 4 Trans. S. B. A., VII. 2 (1881). 82 HILPRECHT ANNIVERSARY VOLUME [4
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