HITTITE CITIES EYUK AND BOGHAZ KEOY. Bau 
kindly read it and sent it back saying, “ Certainly; read it by all 
means. We are very anxious to have as much information as we 
possibly can on Hittite remains and inscriptions.” Here it is, and 
we are again fortunate in having such a high authority as 
Mr. Pinches, who so kindly undertook to read the paper this 
evening, and to draw up some notes of his own regarding its 
character and relation to other countries, and the language in 
which the inscriptions are given. 
I feel sure we are all highly indebted to the author and to Mr. 
Pinches for what they have done in this matter. 
Mr. Rovuse.—I feel deeply indebted on this subject, as we all 
do, and very grateful to the author of the paper and to Mr. 
Pinches for contributing so much to our knowledge of this 
ancient part of the world; and I should like to add a few general 
remarks in the nature of links with other discoveries. 
First of all, when Mr, Arthur Evans brought back from the 
island of Crete, in the year 1894, a number of works of art which 
he attributed to the Caphtorim, he had, amongst those things, a jar 
on which there was a representation of two men, apparently nude, 
but with very long pointed shoes. They also wore very long hair 
and beards. I suppose they were fishermen who had cast off 
their ‘fishers’ coats,” but nevertheless kept on their shoes to 
guard their feet from the sharp rocks. It appears these men had 
been found portrayed in Egypt and were there called Caphtorim. 
Moreover, he showed us by the language he had found on many 
of these porcelain vessels in the caves of Mount Ida that the 
writing of that people greatly resembled the Hittite characters. 
Further, he observed that the Bible several times ealls the 
Philistines Cherethim, which he reads as only another name for 
Cretans. He thinks that Crete was “the isle of Caphtor,’* and 
that in Crete, as he put it, we have the Philistines at home. 
Last year I had the pleasure of listening to him again at the 
British Association; and his researches had then raised the 
number of hieroglyphic signs from seventy to a hundred. A 
linear system of writing to a small extent founded on this 
prevailed more considerably at Knossos; but the hieroglyphic, 
with its resemblance to the Hittite, was in his judgment the 
alphabet of the original Cretan stock—‘ the Eteoeretans of the 
* Jer, xlvii, 4 (R.V. and Heb.). 
