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A still larger deposit of tablets was found in the eastern addition of 

 the large building, presumably the principal sanctuary of the God 

 Teshub. Here, too, the documents of Hattusil predominated, and 

 there were pieces pertaining to his two successors, though not an in- 

 considerable portion belonged to the reign of his two predecessors, 

 particular!}^ Subbiluliuma the first. Other places, besides these two 

 main deposits, yielded considerable finds. Thus one of the gates 

 furnished a large doom book with the royal seal of Arnuanta. (See 

 below.) 



The short time that could be devoted during and since the excava- 

 tions to the investigation of the material has permitted only an 

 examination of those documents which appeared important, especially 

 such as might shed light on historical conditions. A detailed and 

 exhaustive study of the new-found archives must be preceded by the 

 decipherment of the language and will require the cooperation of 

 many workers for a long time. Even the few examples of the con- 

 tents here given must be taken only as provisional. 



But even to convey an adequate idea of what has already been 

 studied is not easy in the present limited space. It will be seen, for 

 instance, that the Tel el-Amarna finds, as well as many data of the 

 Assyrian inscriptions, find their commentary in the new texts. It 

 would be an instructive task to illustrate by comparative examples 

 this unique interlinking of records, but this would require much more 

 space than is here available, and a more thorough investigation of 

 the documents than has been hitherto possible. 



The foremost result obtained is the chronological dating of the 

 documents and through this the defining of the city in its constituent 

 parts. There are documents of the reign of seven kings, represent- 

 ing five generations. Four of these kings were already known from 

 the treat\^ of Ramses, though their names are only now definitely 

 identified. In the uncertain Egyptian script their names were read, 

 Sapalulu, Maurasar, Mautenel, Chetasar. The order as now estab- 

 lished is Subbiluliuma, his two sons Arandas and Mursil, followed by 

 his two grandsons, Muttallu and Hattusil, sons of Mursil. The 

 genealogy of the sons of Subbiluliuma begins with him only; his 

 grandson, Hattusil, names the great-grandfather of the same name, 

 not however as the " great king, King of Chatti," but merely as " King 

 of the City Ku-us-sar " (otherwise unknown). He was probably one 

 of the many city kings who appear as vassals of the " great King," 

 while his son Subbiluliuma was the founder of the dynasty. He had 

 a long and successful reign. The Tel el-Amarna finds contain one or 

 two letters of Amenophis III to him. The new documents show that 

 his reign extended at least to that of Amenophis IV. A whole series 

 of events are common to the Amarna letters and the accounts in the 

 Chatti archives. Here is recounted the advance of the Chatti King 



