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buried fortresses and sanctuaries, and I trust that the time is near when 

 the region of the Orontes and Upper Euphrates will receive due atten- 

 tion. 



I would notice that besides portraits of Hittites by Egyptian artists 

 we have some by their own sculptors, notably of two potentates, whether 

 gods or otherwise, on a stone photographed by my friend Dr. Gwyther, 

 where they are sitting opposite to each other at a cross-legged table. 

 Their headdress is drum-shaped, and resembles that worn by the unsemitic 

 Babylonian King Murduk-nadin-akhi in that beautiful relief-sculpture in 

 the British Museum. The faces are both ugly enough, the middle of the 

 face protruding, as in the Hittite king at Medinet Habu, but with an 

 exaggerated resemblance of that profile. It is well worth while, I think, 

 to study the ' ugly faces ' from Tarsus, in Barker's ' Lares and Penates,' and 

 consider what he says, and quotes from Mr. Abington, in connection with 

 Huns and Hittites.' And I would refer to the woodcuts in the ' Rob Roy 

 on the Jordan,' pp. 241, 255, where the barbarians of Huleh Lake have 

 pigtails and long locks like the Hittites. There is also a woodcut given 

 as a frontispiece in Captain Cameron's work entitled ' Our Future High- 

 way,' representing a Kurdish shepherd of Northern Syria, who wears a 

 high cap exceedingly like the headdress of the King Kheta-sar whose 

 daughter Rameses II. married. The people of Huleh who treated Mr. 

 McGregor so roughly were most of them tattooed. 



10. W ) I I ^ ! • Pidesta-ii. Since this people have been 



identified with the Philistines of the coast-land of Palestine (who, 

 indeed, gave that name to the country), and this opinion, earnestly 

 contested by Chabas, is upheld by Maspero and others, it is right to 

 include them in this connection among the northern peoples. Casts 

 181-2, 194, &c. 



The distinctive helmet of the Pulesta was not contracted so as to 

 resemble a crest, but circular at top, of the same shape as the old caps of 

 the British infantry of the line at Waterloo, and before the time of our 

 Queen. This may be seen where a front-face occurs here and there in 

 the scenes of combat. 



Lenormant saw in the last name of the allies in the great Harris 

 Papyrus ' the Pelasgians of Crete, whence issued the Philistines ' (' Les 

 Orig.,' iii. 127.) 



Now we will turn to special places mentioned in our list which belong 

 to Palestine or Syria. 



No. 1, we have «k_ j ly ^-<^. Luza (' Geog. Inschr.' ii. 75, Taf. 



xxiii. 273), which Brugsch identifies with a town called by Eusebius 

 Aov^d near Sichem. Casts 18-20, 24-27- 



It was, however, a fort in northern Syria, perhaps at Kalb Louzeh, 

 near Edlip. 



No. 2. ^^11. Aia is the next name. I think this is the Aia of 



the North Syrian list of Thothmes III., which I take to be probably 

 Kefr Aya, south of Horns. Casts 21-23. 



' Zares and Penates. London : Ingram Cooke k. Co., 1853 203 et seq. 



