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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 48

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luable, than the older capital. Such a development of trademay well have been occasioned by the decline of the Cretan LECTUEE II 37 power (say about 1200) aiid_the_consequeiit loss of trade with theAegean on the coast of Asia Minor. Bat the Hittite ritlHSTenteastward may have been hastened by… … Fig. 24. Mitanni, &c., on the east and south, as they had previouslyabsorbed the tribes on the west. To these two.periods the two kinds of Hittite writing roughlycorrespond—namely,,the cuneiform to the Northern and the hiero-llyphicto the Southern period. TEiicah hardly be accidental.It niay be…

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