HITTITE CITIES EYUK AND BOGHAZ KEOY. Jeo 
TRANSCRIPTION. 
eetotes chess hei th 6 xe OMG) hears ace ce oN eee rn 
Pia Palen uc, ae bit na-a gistin pa-is-si(?) ......... 
Or eee « @ Sarrm(?) Gis had W-ta-ab-zl 3. te ew 
ce a ae an da pa iZ-21 ta-as-ti-la@ 5. wk ww we 
eae bs selene oe u alu Ne-ri (?) -iq-ga Ser-ru© ww... 
Grae or oisc ioice hi(?) u(?) kit e-te-ni (?) -it II] Su(?).. 
Wate hiss Sel ya-ah-hi dan kit i-Si-in ......4.... 
Seca Genie as a-... .-zimarsar bit Tab-hi(?). ...... 
Oe rr, ee isentme ah Gllaman due sce We SIUSUL 9 oc aes ea! ae 
In the above transcription it has been found impossible to 
reproduce the words as they ought to be read, and it must there- 
fore be regarded as in every respect provisional, and simply 
indicating, therefore, the way in which the characters have been 
identified. It goes, therefore, without saying, that if the 
language is not Semitic, the words bit, “‘ house”; Sarru, “king”’; 
alu, “city”; and mdr Sar bit, “son of the king of the house of” 
(line 8) ; are not properly transcribed, for the simple reason that 
the native equivalents in this case are not known. The tran- 
scription of the third word in line 2 (gistin) being Akkadian, is 
also probably incorrect. 
Though the transcription of the words above quoted may not 
be right, their translation, on the other hand, is more certain 
than that of any other word which the fragment contains. It 
will be seen from this that there is a reference to “the house 
of wine” (or, possibly, “to the house of the vine’’), 
whilst the third line seems to have the word for king and also, 
probably, for “sceptre” (FY 3, gi’ had). The fifth line has 
the name of a city which seems to be fairly certain, namely, 
Neriqqa. 
The division-line probably indicates a fresh paragraph, with a 
more or less decided change of subject. If the last character of 
the sixth line be correctly read, we have either the phonetic 
complement of the word for “three,” or the ending sw, indicating 
the adverbial numeral, “thrice.” Line 8 has apparently the 
mutilated name of ‘‘the son of the king,” which, if the broken 
