[423] The sign is ideographic, and the reading Sandes (or Sandon) is corroborated in various ways. The same sign seems to denote the storm-god (the Babylonian Hadad, and Tessup of the Mitanni) on the Hittite monument found at Babylon (Sayce, Proc. S.B.A., 1904, p. 306). Dr. Winckler, however, in discussing the archives of Boghaz-Keui, believes that Tessup was the name of the national Hittite deity. See also [p. 358].
[424] Below, [Pl. LXV.] and [p. 237]. Notice also the altar on the Pass of Kuru-Bel, above, [p. 147].
[425] Cf. pp. [129], [232]. Among the Hatti, it appears from the archives of Boghaz-Keui, the King was called the Sun-God. Winckler, Mitteil. der D. Orient-Ges., No. 35, Dec. 1907.
[426] In this conclusion we differ somewhat from Professor Sayce, and agree partly with Professor Ramsay. Our argument, however, is only based on somewhat distant analogies. Cf. also Ramsay in the Recueil, etc., xiv. pp. 74 ff. on the priestly office.
[427] Cf. Ramsay and Hogarth, Recueil de Travaux, xv. p. 26.
[428] By Mr. T. Callander, a member of Prof. Ramsay’s expedition of 1904.
[429] Ramsay, Studies in the History and Art of the Eastern Provinces of the Roman Empire (Aberdeen, 1906), p. 178 and Pls. IX., X., XI.; C.I.H. (1906), p. 9 and Pls. XLIX., L. Professor Ramsay found still another altar in 1907.
[430] For an exhaustive comparative study of these inscriptions see a paper by Sayce, Proc. S.B.A. xxvii. (1905), pp. 21-31 and Pls. I., II., III., and revised note, ibid., vol. xxviii. (1906), May, p. 134.
[431] See below, Pls. [LXVIII.], [LXXI.]
[432] Above, [Pl. XLVII.]