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103. Kantor, The Aegean and the Orient, p. 97- suggests. The inscription is thought to be of the
tenth century b.c.
104. The photograph of this piece (Loud,
Megiddo Ivories, plate 22), suggests that the lowest i 12. The very complex problem of the funerary p. 160
figure might be a goddess wearing a crown as feast depicted in Egyptian tombs has been elucidated
shown in Cylinder Seals, plate xliv, (g), (h), and (j). by Miriam Lichthcim, ‘The Songs of the Harpers’
(Journal of Near Eastern Studies, iv, 1945). 178-212.
105. Loud, op. cit., plate 9, no. 36. Cf. Frankfort,
Kingship and the Gods, figure 12. 113. Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, xi, 159 ff- P- 161
and plate xvii, where IT. R. H. Hall assigns it to
106. Loud, op. cit., plate 33,110. 161. Syria.
107. Loud, op. cit., no. 162.
P- *39 114. Mallowan, in Iraq (1947)1 174-
108. These arc discussed in Journal of Egyptian 115. Hall, in Journal of Hellenic Studies, XLVIII
Archaeology, vu, 31ft'. - the closest parallel is the (192S), 64-74; Andrae, Die jiingeren Ischtartcmpcl,
hindmost scribe supervising Negroes in Bologna:
79-
Stcindorff, Die Kunst der Aegypter (Leipzig, 1928), 116. Parrot, in Syria, xviii (1937). S3, plates xiv,
248. 3 and 4; xv, 3.
109. There has been a long controversy about the 117. C. F. A. Schaeffer, Ugaritica, 1, 9 ff., p. 32
origin of these bringers of tribute, the Keftin, and plate x.
marked, on the whole, by a lack of critical acumen. 118. Quarterly of the Department of Antiquities oj
See now Arne Furumark’s discussion in Opusctila
Palestine, iv (1934), plates xxviii-xxix.
Archaeologica, vi (Lund, 1950), 223-46.
119. Hall, loc. citMurray, Smith, and Walters,
no. It is interesting to compare this piece with Excavations in Cyprus, 22, plate iii.
one found in the extreme south of Palestine, at 120. Information supplied by Mr R. W. Hut­
Tell Fara (W. M. Flinders Petrie, Beth Pclcth I chinson.
(London, 1930), 19 and plate lv). It is dated by its p. 162
discoverer to the reign of Seti I. It follows Egyptian 121. Syria, xviii (1937). 83.
prototypes much more closely than the Megiddo 122. C. F. A. Schaeffer, The Cuneiform Texts of
ivory. On the box-lid from Tell Fara the Ras Shatura, 50 f.
principal person - one tends to say, the Egyptian 123. This point is very clearly brought out by
governor - is attended by an Egyptian-looking C. F. A. Schaeffer in the second chapter of his
butler. He sits on an Egyptian camp-stool; a maid­ Ugaritica I, csp. 77 ff., 90 ff.
servant fills his cup, and a dancing-girl performs to 124. Antiquaries1 Journal, xxx (1950), 2”8.
the sound of a double flute, played by her com­
panion. The rest of the box-lid shows a stiff render­ CHAPTER II
ing of another Egyptian theme, a papyrus marsh. A
man returns with ducks dangling from a pole, 1. This is shown by the texts trom Karatepe p. 164
anodicr carries a calf through a water-course, a third referring to Mopsos-Moxos. See below.
catches birds in a net - all purely Egyptian motifs. 2. Asitavandas, the builder of Karatepe in Cilicia p. 165
The style, on the other hand, is un-Egyptian. The in the seventh century b.c., claims descent from
calf, and the beautiful long-horned bulls moving Mopsos whom Greek tradition connects with the
through the reeds, are rather Aegean in character, fall of Troy and with Cilicia, while Hittite tradition
recalling the bulls on the narrow side of the gaming connects him with the fall of the Hittite Empire. Sec
board from Enkomi. And a thoroughly un- FI. T. Bosscrt,in Revue Hittite et Asianique,ix(jg4.f),
Egyptian palm-tree closes the scene at each end. Its 1-9; Orientalia, xix (1950), 122-5. See a good
fronds are S-shaped, like those of the Samaria and summary by M. Mcllink in Bibliotheca Oricntalis,
Arslan Tash ivories of a later period. The mixture vn (1950), 14S ff., who also gives a bibliography.
of derivations shows, once again, that we arc dealing See also R. D. Barnett in Journal of Hellenic Studies,
with a Levantine work, even though it follows
lxxiii, 1953, I4iff.
Egyptian examples in remarkable detail.
3. C. L. Woolley, Carchcmish,u, plate B30a.
iii. Sidney Smith, Alalakh and Chronology, 46, 4.1 avoid the commonly used term nco-Hittitc
n. 117, was, I think, the first to argue that the date because it is misleading through its suggestion of
of the sarcophagus was independent of that of the continuity with the Hittites. Puchstein spoke of
inscription and fell within the confines of the thir­
pseudo-Hittitc; Przeworski of Syrian; Unger of
teenth century b.c. as the archaeological evidence Aramaean; Moortgat of Human. The last two

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