Note 807 — VI THE STORY OF THE HITTITES

For a summary of the Egyptian sources, see de Rougé, Revue Égyptologique, iii. p. 149; vii. p. 182. For discussion of the identity of the peoples, with the authorities, Maspero, Struggle of the Nations, pp. 390, 398. Time has brought respect for the latter’s common-sense principle of inquiry, and for the insight of Professor Sayce (The Hittites, 1903 ed., p. 26) in this matter. The argument of Professor Petrie, based on the improbability of troops, ‘three men in a car,’ being able to cross ‘so rough a country as Asia Minor’ (History, iii. p. 47), breaks down at the first name on the lists, and we may regard the main subject of this controversy practically closed. So, too, new evidence makes it unnecessary to discuss in detail the attitude of Hirschfeld, Die Felsenreliefs in Kleinasien und das Volk der Hittiter (Berlin, 1881), and O. Puchstein, Pseudo-hethitische Kunst (Berlin, 1890), though we notice special points of criticism. For a review of the whole situation down to 1896, see Reinach, Chroniques d’Orient, especially i. pp. 372 ff. and pp. 772 ff.