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REPORT —1887.
capes, and wearing hoods bound with fillets—are represented as hewing
down tall pine trees in their mountains for Seti I. Casts 88-93.
6. The Lebanon leads us to *,_^ ^vk-J"J Keft, Phoenicia.—This is
a very interesting and important designation, which appears to me to
linger still in the name Karkafta, near the coast north of Ruad, the
ancient Arvad.
The Greek legend of Kepheus, embodied the name and history of
Keft. The connection between Phoenicia and Pun is very important.
In Egyptian tableaux the nobles of Keft bring splendid vessels of gold and
other precious materials. They wear beautifully embroidered kilts, with
fringes and sashes, and their hair is trained into long locks on both sides
of the head.
^<A»J Khal, or Khar, denotes Northern Syria.—The name
has been traced to the Semitic Ahha/rru, the hinder, or western, land. The
r and I are very interchangeable, and at all events we meet the form Khal
in the river Khalus and other forms, as Khalkis, for instance. The people
of Khal have a marked Semitic aspect, and the dignified fashion of drapery
which distinguishes their kindred.
8. \ Z i<=f> Am'dr, the Amorite.—We find this name in many
and important relations both in the Bible and without. In Egyptian
record it is remarkably locked in with the geographical relations and
doings of the Kheta, both in Northern Syria and in the south. It appears
also in local connection with the Euphrates, and with the kingdom of
Damascus. The Amorite is bearded and has strongly marked features,
and wears the same long robe and cape as the inhabitants of the Lebanon,
and the Semitic people of Ascalon, and the like. Casts 62-5, 86,146-8,
157, 179-80.
9. © J Kheta; Kheth, the Hittite.—Here we certainly have an
intrusive and conquering race, who in course of time supplanted the
Ruthen in the dominion of Syria, and, as we know, ran almost a success-
ful race with the Egyptians, merging their hostile relations into those of
political and matrimonial alliance. At length the Plittite power was
utterly broken by Assyria under Sargon, and we now have to gather their
story from Egyptian monuments and Assyrian cylinders, until we may
obtain and read their long lost memorials. Casts 49-58, 76-7,143-5, 156.
Dr. Birch used compendiously to call the Kheta Tatars, and this
expresses well their aspect with yellow beardless faces, and long pigtails or
scalp locks. Everything belonging to the Hittites is now very deservedly
in request. For my own humble part, I have been endeavouring to iden-
tify in the Northern Syrian List of Karnak the sites of their buried
fortresses and sanctuaries, and I trust that the time is near when the region
of the Orontes and Upper Euphrates will receive due attention.
I would notice that besides portraits of Hittites by Egyptian artists
we have some by their own sculptors, notably of two potentates, whether
gods or otherwise, on a stone photographed by my friend Dr. Gwyther,
where they are sitting opposite to each other at a cross-legged table.
Their headdress is drum-shaped, and resembles that worn by the unsemitic
Babylonian King Murduk-nadin-akhi in that beautiful relief-sculpture in
the British Museum. The faces are both ugly enough, the middle of the
REPORT —1887.
capes, and wearing hoods bound with fillets—are represented as hewing
down tall pine trees in their mountains for Seti I. Casts 88-93.
6. The Lebanon leads us to *,_^ ^vk-J"J Keft, Phoenicia.—This is
a very interesting and important designation, which appears to me to
linger still in the name Karkafta, near the coast north of Ruad, the
ancient Arvad.
The Greek legend of Kepheus, embodied the name and history of
Keft. The connection between Phoenicia and Pun is very important.
In Egyptian tableaux the nobles of Keft bring splendid vessels of gold and
other precious materials. They wear beautifully embroidered kilts, with
fringes and sashes, and their hair is trained into long locks on both sides
of the head.
^<A»J Khal, or Khar, denotes Northern Syria.—The name
has been traced to the Semitic Ahha/rru, the hinder, or western, land. The
r and I are very interchangeable, and at all events we meet the form Khal
in the river Khalus and other forms, as Khalkis, for instance. The people
of Khal have a marked Semitic aspect, and the dignified fashion of drapery
which distinguishes their kindred.
8. \ Z i<=f> Am'dr, the Amorite.—We find this name in many
and important relations both in the Bible and without. In Egyptian
record it is remarkably locked in with the geographical relations and
doings of the Kheta, both in Northern Syria and in the south. It appears
also in local connection with the Euphrates, and with the kingdom of
Damascus. The Amorite is bearded and has strongly marked features,
and wears the same long robe and cape as the inhabitants of the Lebanon,
and the Semitic people of Ascalon, and the like. Casts 62-5, 86,146-8,
157, 179-80.
9. © J Kheta; Kheth, the Hittite.—Here we certainly have an
intrusive and conquering race, who in course of time supplanted the
Ruthen in the dominion of Syria, and, as we know, ran almost a success-
ful race with the Egyptians, merging their hostile relations into those of
political and matrimonial alliance. At length the Plittite power was
utterly broken by Assyria under Sargon, and we now have to gather their
story from Egyptian monuments and Assyrian cylinders, until we may
obtain and read their long lost memorials. Casts 49-58, 76-7,143-5, 156.
Dr. Birch used compendiously to call the Kheta Tatars, and this
expresses well their aspect with yellow beardless faces, and long pigtails or
scalp locks. Everything belonging to the Hittites is now very deservedly
in request. For my own humble part, I have been endeavouring to iden-
tify in the Northern Syrian List of Karnak the sites of their buried
fortresses and sanctuaries, and I trust that the time is near when the region
of the Orontes and Upper Euphrates will receive due attention.
I would notice that besides portraits of Hittites by Egyptian artists
we have some by their own sculptors, notably of two potentates, whether
gods or otherwise, on a stone photographed by my friend Dr. Gwyther,
where they are sitting opposite to each other at a cross-legged table.
Their headdress is drum-shaped, and resembles that worn by the unsemitic
Babylonian King Murduk-nadin-akhi in that beautiful relief-sculpture in
the British Museum. The faces are both ugly enough, the middle of the