HITTITE CITIES EYUK AND BOGHAZ KEOY. 235 
After writing the above, I went this afternoon to the British 
Museum to consult a book by Ernest Chantre, entitled Mission en 
Cappadoce. Unfortunately the Museum reading-room was closed ; 
but Mr. Fortescue, the Keeper of the Department of Printed 
Books, at once took me into the large room at the back of the 
reading-room, and after some delay, as the buok was in the 
possession of one of my former colleagues in the Department of 
Assyrian and Egyptian Antiquities, I obtained it; but unfortu- 
nately the waiting consumed the amount of time I thought to 
devote to that book. I did, however, what I could in the time at 
my disposal, and compared the copy I had made with the frag- 
ments (which are rather numerous) described by M. Chantre. 
Those fragments contained, as far as I could see in a short time, 
the same kind of inscriptions, and there were also remarks on 
them by M. Boissier, the Swiss Assyriologist, and Professor 
Delitzsch, and copies of the inscriptions. Some of them were by 
Professor Delitzsch, and his copies I found to be by far the best. 
The texts differ much in character, and the opinion expressed 
seemed to be that they were not historical and not contracts; 
nor were they letters, but religious texts. If that be the case, we 
have something here which differs from the known documents, 
because this inscription seems to be, on account of its mention- 
ing the name of a son of a king, historical, more or less, or it may 
be part of a letter. 
With regard to the language, as I have indicated, it is similar 
to the idiom of the ancient city, called in the tablet I have 
mentioned Arzapi,* and possibly akin to Hittite; but whether it 
is the same as Hittite, or only akin to it, I am not in a position to 
say. Professor Delitzsch’s signature, I noticed, was not at the end 
appearance, and also (as was to be expected) ideographs which are used 
as in Semitic Babylonian inscriptions, and which may have been read 
with their Babylonian pronunciation, 7.¢., as words borrowed from that 
language. It is also worthy of note that one of the inscriptions 
published in M. Chantre’s book contains, as there stated, the name. of 
Sargon (probably the Babylonian ruler of about 3800 B.c.). Another of 
these inscriptions, moreover, seems to refer to the sceptre-bearer of 
Sargon, and an official with a similar title may occur in line 3 of the 
fragment now published, in which case the first character would be that 
for “man,” not “king.” If, however, the reading of the copy and the 
transcription be correct, the line in question probably means “the king 
took (held, or something similar) the sceptre.” 
* Or Arzawa, as it is generally read. 
