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39ff’ LAn Phc'"'CiC" d" 11 Mi,li"a"c (Paris, 1949),
were always found in connexion with tablets-
several come from Kultcpc. It is in publishing th
p. 13s 31.Annates du Service des Antiquites, vii (Cairo, CSC
1906), 115-20. that H. c c Gcnouillac, in Ccramiquc Cappadocia,nc
, , proposed to call it ‘signe royal’, a reasonable dcsig-
p-139 3— 1 ms site, discovered and excavated by Sir nation, since it is certainly an official mark. It is
Leonard Woolley, has become the key to the °luitc gratuitous to describe it as ‘representant Ic
chronology of the second millennium as a result so^cil ct la foudre’, as Schaeffer docs, who did not
of the work of Sidney Smith, Alalahh and Chrono- recognize its Hittitc connexions when lie found it
logy (London, 1940). on a bronze object (Syria, xir, 1931 plate xiii(4)).
p. 140 33. In these rooms a multitude of tablets and Vittel and Gutcrbock, in Boghazhoy (Berlin, 1935),
further more costly objects were found: elephants’ 41 con^usc the issue by considering it related to
tusks, inlays on caskets, bronze weapons, alabaster ^ Babylonian sun symbol; for this had a four-
vases. Were they stores or offices of the Private P°j,ltcd star with multiple zigzags between the
Purse ? points, and not the peculiar butcher’s hook and dots
of the Hittitc sign. When the Hittites did borrow a
34. I have to thank Sir Leonard Woolley for the
symbol, such as the ‘winged disk’, there is no such
photographs and for permission to reproduce them. discrepancy, and the ‘signe royal’ is therefore not
The preliminary report appeared in Illustrated to be derived from the Mesopotamian sun disk
London News, 25 Oct. 1947, 470 ffi I do not endorse
with its very different design. It also deserves
the description of the head as ‘Hittitc’.
notice that the ‘royal sign’ never occurs in the sun
35. Illustrated London News, 25 Oct. 1947, 471, of the ‘winged disk’, again in contrast with the
figures 3, 4- Mesopotamian design. Its absence from the royal
36. A. Moortgat, Die bildcndc Kunst des alien scalings indicate that it docs not stand for the king,
p. 141 Orientsltnd die Bergvolker (Berlin, 1932), has attemp- but for some part of the machine of government
I / / ted to assign to various groups of mountaineers dis- which we caimot identify as yet.
tinctivc themes or styles, but without success. His 49 The Mycenaean parallels arc listed by Helene
recent attempt to separate north Syrian and Hittitc j Kantor, The Aegean and the Orient in the Second
themes was equally unsuccessful. See above, n. 45 Millennium, 101.
(p. 247).
50. Antiquaries* Journal, xix, 13.
37. Frankfort, Cylinder Seals, 273-84.
51. Sidney Smith, The Statue of Idrimi (London,
p. 142 38. Hurrian ware, Atchana ware, Billa ware. 1949). He dates Idrimi to 1414-13S5 B.c. Goetze
39. See Mallowan’s study in Melanges Syriens (Journal of Cuneiform Studies, iv, 1950), 231, suggests
efforts a M. Rene Dussaud, ir, 887-94. the first half of the fifteenth century b.c.
40. Helene J. Kantor, The Aegean and the Orient 52. To be published by the Oriental Institute of
in the Second Millennium B.C., 78. the University of Chicago.
41. It belongs to level ir, of the thirteenth cen­ 53. Antiquaries* Journal, xxviii (1948)1 platc v^-
p. 143
tury B.c. See Sidney Smith, Alalakh and Chronology, 54. Syria, xxviii (1951). *5, figure 17- The most P. M7
46. recent excavations have shown that the palace was
42. Antiquaries* Journal, xxvm (1948), 5 and a very large building indeed, containing several
plate vhi(a). Cf. A. W. Persson, New Tombs at more courts with a pillared portico wliich gives
Dendra near Midca, 105 and 108. access to the rooms beyond.
55 C. F. A. Schaeffer, Stratigraphic Comparer P. 14'
43. R. F. S. Starr, Nuzi (Cambridge, Mass.,
plates hi, vii and ix. Syria xxvm (1951). * «• ™
1937, 1939)-
extent of these fortifications is not yet known. The)
44. Starr, op. cit., plate no (a).
Frankfort, Cylinder Seals, 272, and plate may belong to an earlier period, i.c. 1650-145°-
p. 144 45- Cylinder Seals, plate xliv(c), (d),
j. / \ 56. Frankfort,
the Anatolian cylinder, op.
46. Annals of Archaeology and Anthropology, xix (JO,
{UA7. Antiquaries’’Journal, xix (1939), plates xiii and 57- figure repre-
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