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word 59 it ig that we are to read the first two signs as 
"Chief Nm 
R 
8-pointed star- Sd d In words, 28 a nd 31 j it ie 
associated with a Le m of an Pas tee head in 
the figure being of the pistes period of the island.“ Are, 
and is 
ciated with the word for “votary”? On the lid of the ivory 
casket already referred to there are several 8-petalled — 
The Py is probably a direct importation from Assyri 
Boa 9) This may be compared with the facials of 
Cypriote boats figured in di Cesnola's work. 
in.—(1 2) This is something like the coverings placed 
Over the horses in the chariot illustrated on the casket. 
Glove —(13) 8 ome scholars have called this sign a cestus, 
but I behave it to be a glove. I communicated this sug- 
gestion to Professor W. J. Woodhouse, of Sydney University, 
TU.” It might be “of "erue to add that the scd Persian 
E glove was ‘“KARBUL’’; the latter word occurs in the 
Ms phon of Darius the Great at Nakshi Rustam, aérea 
read of ‘‘Cimmerians who wear gloves on their hands.” Q9 
p» id ^ L. Myres, Metropolitan Museum of Art, N.Y., 1914, 
04 Myres, op. cit., p. 193, mentions that rosette Surya. Disk 
in the n ge tury Ch. th e "Relief of Moltha AS from! "a oe 
nacherib," son Lol ien ., who 705-682, 
red in “The Civilizat tion | tUm the East," Dr. Bomal (Temple 
Primers, J. M. Dent & Co., 
05) “Records of the E " ed v., pp. 151, 152. 
