Hittite Seals: With Particular Reference to the Ashmolean Collection

Abstract

THE opening out of the history of man during the last thirty years has been quite as surprising as the growth of other branches of science. In place of trying to extract some further ideas from the ragged relics of literature, we have learned how to understand a civilisation without any intelligible documents, and to place the remains of it in order so as to show its abilities and to tell its course. The volume here noted deals with a branch of the Hittite work which has a wide historical interest, for the small seals are distinctive in their styles, and serve to show connections with work in other lands; they also were readily carried to other countries, and thus are links with neighbouring civilisations.

Hittite Seals: With Particular Reference to the Ashmolean Collection.

By D. G. Hogarth. Pp. xi + 108 + x plates. (Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1920.) 3l. 13s. 6d. net.