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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 43

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s if the peoplewere dolichocephalic and probably of a Mediterranean stock.The native sculptures, so far as I know, never represent this 32 THE HITTITES type, but that of an apparently brachyceplialic Armenoidstock. If then there were two races we might take theEgyptian pictures to represent an… … Fis. 18. (From Hogarth, pi. B. 4.) Kadesh would naturally belong to the native race. The kingwould, of course, be of ^he conquering race, and so it is notsurprising to find that the portrait (if it is not merely conven-tional) of Hattusil bringing his daughter to Eameses II isquite unlike those of…

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