[722] Cf. Pls. [LXV.], [LXXI.]
[724] Cf. the addresses of some case tablets from Asia Minor, published by Pinches, Liv. Annals of Arch. i. pp. 49 ff., assigned by that scholar to 2000 B.C.; also a Cappadocian tablet of the same period, now in the Royal Scottish Museum of Art and Science. Horses and chariots were employed by Aitagama in the early fourteenth century; while Hittite cavalry are mentioned in the treaty with Rameses II., and are depicted on the north wall of Karnak.
[725] Though we await some revision of Dr. Pumpelly’s chronology, we cannot doubt the antiquity of the deposits in question. See his Explorations in Turkestan, i. p. 38.
[726] Cf. Pls. [XLVII.], [LVII.], [LXV.], [LXXI.], [LXXV. (ii)], etc.
[727] Cf. W. Max Müller, Asien und Europa, pp. 328, 372; Lenormant, Les Origines d’Histoire (who infers a northern origin), iii. p. 299.
[728] Cf. [p. 237], and [Pl. LXV.]
[730] We suspect tin from this direction. Cf. description by Belck (Verhandl. der Berl. Ges. für Anthropologie, 1893, pp. 61 ff.), of tombs at Kala-Kent near Kedabeg. For this reference we are indebted to Mr. H. Schliephack.
[731] Cf. the bronze figure, [Pl. XL.]; the bronze axe and trappings of Boghaz-Keui, Winckler, op. cit., pp. 7 ff. and fig. 1.