[83] Hamilton, Researches in Asia Minor, i. p. 383; Ramsay, Jour. Roy. As. Soc., XV. p. 123.
[84] See [Pl. XXV. (iii)], from Liv. Annals, i. Pl. XIII. The name of Midas in this inscription was first recognised by Prof. Myres, op. cit., p. 13.
[85] Cf. Maspero, The Struggle of the Nations, pp. 591, 643.
[86] In the reign of Assur-Nazir-Pal; cf. Maspero, The Passing of Empires, p. 16.
[87] Regarding, that is, the successive appearance of the Mitanni, the Hittites, and the Urartu (the Vannic power) as analogous movements. Cf. Winckler, Mitteil. d. Deut. Orient-Ges., December 1907, pp. 47 ff.; and in The World’s History, vol. iii. p. 113 etc.
[88] See especially Ramsay, ‘A Study of Phrygian Art,’ in the Jour. Hell. Stud., ix. (1887-8), pp. 350-352, and an earlier article in vol. iii. pp. 1-32; and Maspero, The Passing of Empires, pp. 328-335.
[89] Cf. Homer, Iliad, iii. 187; xvi. 719.
[90] On this point, see Ramsay, Cities and Bishoprics of Phrygia (Oxford, 1895), i. p. 7.
[91] Ramsay, loc. cit. Cf. the central group of Hittite sculptures at Iasily Kaya, Pl. LXV., where, however, the Father-god, the consort of the Mother-goddess, is seemingly derived from Babylonian origins. So, too, the Storm-god of the Hittites has clearly a Babylonian prototype in Hadad. On the subject of the Hittite deities, see below, [pp. 356 ff.]
[92] Herodotus, ii. 2.