[103] Strabo, XIV. i. 40.
[104] Cf. Maspero, op. cit., p. 336; also Sayce, Empires of the East, i. p. 427.
[105] Herodotus, i. 7. On the way in which the date is derived, see Schubert, Gesch. der Könige von Lydien, p. 8.
[106] For the character of the early names and their relation to the Hittite see Sayce, loc. cit.; cf. also Hall on Mursil and Myrtillos, Jour. Hell. Stud., xxix. (1909), pp. 19-22; and on the same point, Winckler in the Orientalistische Litteratur-Zeitung, Dec. 1906.
[107] Gelzer, Das Zeitalter des Gyges, Rheins. Mus., vol. xxxv. (1880), pp. 520-524; cf. Radet, La Lydie et le Monde Grec, etc., pp. 90, 91.
[108] Cf. the position of the Hatti kings, pp. [340], [361 ff.]; and of the kings of Comana, of Pontus, and other states (Strabo, Bk. XII. ch. iii. sec. 32). On this subject see also Ramsay, in Recueil de Travaux, vol. xiv. pp. 78 ff., on ‘The Pre-Hellenic Monuments of Cappadocia.’
[109] For the double axe in Hittite symbolism, see [Pl. LXV.]; and for the relation of the God-of-the-double-axe to Hercules, see pp. [195], [240].
[110] On this question, and on the whole subject of Hittite influence surviving in the civilisations of the western coast, see the brilliant survey by Hogarth, Ionia and the East, especially pp. 74 ff. and 101-2.
[111] Op. cit., pp. 101-2.
[112] Excavations at Ephesus: I. The Archaic Artemisia p. 173.