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Israel happened, and he it was who overthrew the Hittite 

 empire at Carchemish, and scattered its warlike tribes, many 

 taking refuge in Asia Minor, carrying with them the latest 

 forms of their writing. The last record I shall mention will be 

 that of the stone bowl from Babylon ; the inscription on which 

 reads, " Tarako, king of the Moschi, dwelling in the city Sarara, 

 brings to Essarhaddon, the successor of the mighty king of Assyria 

 Sennacherib, the stone bowl, containing just manehs of really pure 

 silver, to hold Sennacherib in memory." With the exception of 

 the boss " Tarrik-timme" this stone bowl is the most recent record 

 of the Hittites. It is in hieroglyphic character (about 680, B.C.) 

 In a memoir on the Astronomy and Astrology of the Babylonians, 

 Professor Sayce translates a document belonging to the time of 

 Sargon of Agane (about 1,700 to 1,730, B.C.), in which the 

 following passage appears: "On the twentieth day an eclipse 

 happens, the king of the Hittites (Khati) lives, and on the 

 throne seizes." Now Sargon was a Hittite on his father's 

 side, but as a deposed prince. He made his way to the throne 

 without parental aid, and even disowned the ancestral name 

 and language. 



A broken fragment of the annals of Nebuchadnezzar has shed 

 some light on the identification of Phut. We there read that the 

 Babylonian king, in the 37th year of his reign, inarched against 

 Egypt, and defeated the army of Amasis, the Egyptian monarch, as 

 well as the soldiers of the city of Phut-Yavan or Phut of the lonians. 

 It is known that Amasis had granted special privileges to the 

 Greeks, had surrounded himself with a Greek body-guard, and had 

 removed the camp of the Greek mercenaries from the neighbourhood 

 of Pelusium to that of Memphis. In the city of Phut-Yavan we 

 must see some city to which the Greek mercenaries were considered 

 in a special manner to belong. Phut, therefore, can no longer be 

 said to remain without a record except in the Hebrew scriptures, 

 and we can understand why Phut is associated with Lud by the 

 prophets, when they threaten Egypt with its coming overthrow 

 (Jeremiah xlvi, 9). Like the Lydians the men of Phut offered their 



