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by the Acting-Director, Mr. Hawes. They were the guests of the 

 Museum at hnicheon. In the afternoon, they were conducted, 

 some through the Egyptian Rooms by Dr. Reisner, and others 

 through the Japanese Rooms by Mr. John Ellerton Lodge. The 

 Delegates and their hosts dined together at the Harvard Chib. 



During the afternoon, Dr. Reisner gave an account of his twenty- 

 two years of archfeological research in Egypt, ilhistrated by the 

 objects now on exhibition, of which the most notable are: 1. 

 Eleven sculptin-es in the round of Chej)hren, ]\Iycerinus, Shepse- 

 skaf , and other members of the royal family of the Foui'th Dynasty ; 

 2. Two sculptures in the round of prime importance, and many 

 lesser statues and reliefs of the Old Empire; 3. The statue of the 

 Lady Sennuwy, and the painted wooden coffin of the monarch 

 Dehuti-nekht, both of the Middle Ethiopian IMonarchy (900-300 

 B.C.), the other half of which is in Khartum. 



Sessions of Thursday, October 6, 192L 



President ]\Ioore called the assembly to order at ten o'clock. 



Dr. Arthur Ernest Cowley, of Oxford, Librarian of the Bodleian 

 Library, spoke upon the Hittite hieroglyphic inscriptions. He be- 

 lieves that they belong to the ninth and eighth centuries B.C., 

 and that their language is connected with that of the inscriptions 

 of ^"an, the ancient Armenian tongue. 



Dr. Cowley laid stress on the distinction between these and the 

 earlier cuneiform Hittite texts. We cannot assume without proof 

 that the language of the Carchemish inscriptions is the same as 

 that of the cuneiform tablets of Boghaz-keui. Nor can we even 

 be sure that the signs always have the same values and conceal 

 the same language at Tyana and Marash, for instance, as at Car- 

 chemish. Still we mav continue to call the inscriptions Hittite, 

 since the Assyrians spoke of the king of Carchemish as Sar mat 

 Hatti, and since the king of Carchemish also called himself by a 

 similar title. Lord of Hana, ruler of Hattina, according to Dr. 

 Cowley's decipherment. Hana, at the confluence of the Habur 

 with the Eui)hrates, and Hattina, the district to the west of 

 Carchemish, are mentioned together in the Cappadocian texts just 



