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discussion of the values will be found in the Palestine 
Ezxploration Fund Quarterly Statements for 1888, and in 
Altaic Hieroglyphs, second edition, where also a full reply is 
given to such criticisms of detail as have been yet published. 
The values are often supported by consideration of the words 
formed by the combinations of these monosyllabic emblems, 
which may be roughly divided into two classes—I1st, the large 
emblems which are ideograms; 2nd, the smaller attached 
emblems which appear to be phonetics. A few doubtful and 
indistinct emblems on the monuments are omitted from the 
two lists here given. 
If this system be the true one it will evidently apply equally 
‘well to the longest and shortest texts alike. 
At the Karabel Pass there is a figure with an inscription 
consisting only of seven emblems. ‘This I find reads well. 
(See Wright’s Hmpire of the Hittites, plate xviii.) 
Id-dip-pu-Zi-an i-gu. 
“The monument Zi-an, called” (invokes). Zi-an ‘the spirit 
of heaven” is frequently invoked in Akkadian litanies. The 
figure accompanying the text is that of a bowman with tiara 
like the figures of male deities discovered at Pterium in 
Cappadocia. 
ANIAAU} : iC hey } 
OF WASHINGTON 
