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The Hittites (1920)

Cowley, A. E. (Arthur Ernest), 1861-1931 · London, Pub. for the British academy by H. Milford, Oxford university press · leaf 38

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ontactwith Mesopotamia, and this is corroborated by the meag?eneisandarchaic character of the hieroglyphics on the monumeiits, asthough the system of writing had not yet-be^n developed. What we can gather from early ihonuments as to Hittite LECTUEE II 27 I religion^oints to the same westward… … Fig. 12. goddess, whose Hittite name is unknown. She is probably re-presented in the figure at Sipylos, and is certainly found in theBoghaz-keui sculptures^ in close relation to the god. Now itcannot be a mere coincidence that we find the worship of Cybeleand Attys prevalent at a later date in…

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