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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 61

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S ERI— I am T. king of the land of the city. The reason whythis reading has not been settled before is that the strange ex-pression king of the land of the city was unknown, but thetexts found at Boghaz-keui have shown that this is a characteristicexpression in Hittite. Now take the central legend,… … ^wfMfmiMmwriii \ ^mm&^mmm,mmi mmmm&m^^^m Fig. 26. (From Hogarth, pi. A. 11 6.)^■^ = TarTfu, .^/w, = dim 11 |S = ™e ^t;7 = king AA = country h = city. This gives the values of two common ideograms— country and city, but we do not know in the least how theywere pronounced. A single one of…

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