. The war and the Bagdad railway. f inscriptionsin the peculiar Hittite hieroglyphic characters,accompanying the sculptures, and the many in-scribed stones containing the explanation of thescenes or embodying votive dedications. By the sideof these inscribed lapidary monuments, excavationsat Boghaz-Keui conducted by the late Hugo Winck-ler in 1906-1907 have brought to light, to cap thesurprise of scholars, thousands of clay tablets, likethose found in Babylonian and Assyrian mounds,covered with cuneiform characters, but representingnot the Sumerian (non-Semitic) or Akkadian (Semi-tic) language
. The war and the Bagdad railway. f inscriptionsin the peculiar Hittite hieroglyphic characters,accompanying the sculptures, and the many in-scribed stones containing the explanation of thescenes or embodying votive dedications. By the sideof these inscribed lapidary monuments, excavationsat Boghaz-Keui conducted by the late Hugo Winck-ler in 1906-1907 have brought to light, to cap thesurprise of scholars, thousands of clay tablets, likethose found in Babylonian and Assyrian mounds,covered with cuneiform characters, but representingnot the Sumerian (non-Semitic) or Akkadian (Semi-tic) language of the Euphrates Valley, but Hittite—the same language as that of the hieroglyphic inscrip-tions, transliterated into cuneiform.* This proof ofthe adoption of the cuneiform script for writingHittite, because more convenient and simpler forcorrespondence and business documents—and that * A parallel would be to come across Egyptian inscriptionswritten not with any of the varieties of the Egyptian script,but with Greek HITTITE ROCK SCULPTURE AT IVRIZ (C. 1000 )
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