critical review of the parts on the history of the Antique period in Toynbee's works). - 575=594 Friedrich Focke: Ilias und Odyssee im Rahmen Alteuropas (points out that in the Ilias traditions of nomads or rather on horseback are much stronger than traditions which point to seafareis. In- teresting remarks on the geographical knowledge are reflected in both epics). - 595-6i7 Karl Dietrich Erdmann: Wandlungen des britischen Reichsbewusstseins vom 19. zum 20. Jahrhundert. — 618-626 Albert Wucher: Das Bild der griechischen Geschichte (review-article on the books of H. Bengtson, H. Berve and U. Wilcken on Greek history)- - 627-638 Heinz Rupp and Oskar Köhler: Historia— Geschichte (changes of the meaning and scope of both words). The reviewer would like to remark that the journal has become one of the finest journals of its kind, not only by the quality of its articles but also by its excellent redaction which always tries to combine in one number articles which complement each other and give a full picture of the field considered. Berkeley, Cal. W. Eberhard

Jahrbuch für kleinasiatische Forschung. Internationale orientalistische Zeitschrift. Heraus- gegeben von H. TH. BOSSERT und FRANZ STEINHERR. â홢홢 Heidelberg, Carl Winter Universitätsverslag. 55.50 DM pro Jahrgang.

Band d I, rg5oJ5x. 344 S., 32 Tafeln. 8°. After the Kleinasiatisclae Forschungen, edited by F. Sommer and H. Ehelolf, of which only one volume appeared (1930), and the Revue Hittite et Asianique, founded, in 1930, by the late L. Delaportc, this is a new and highly welcome journal devoted to the study of Ancient Anatolia. The first two ..Hefte" of the first volume bring articles dedicated to the editor, Professor Bossert (), on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday, which accounts for their covering a somewhat wider field.

H e f t 1 (March, 1950). 1-42 Carl Rathjens: Kulturelle Einflüsse in Südwest-Arabien von den ältesten Zeiten bis zum Islam, unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des Hellenismus (with 15 figures and plates I-III) (A survey of the prehistory and early history of Arabia, with emphasis on trade routes and foreign influences). - 43-47 A. Dupont Sommer: Deux nouvellcs inscriptions semitiques trouvees en Cilicie (with 3 figs. and pl. IV) (I. Cylinder scal from southern Anatolia in Bossert's collection, published by Bossert-홢ambel, , A Prelimincary Report ... [Istanbul, 1946] fig. 37, with Hittite hieroglyphs(?) and Phoenician inscription of the 9th or 8th century: Mm S-sry "seal of The Tyrian"; II. Fragmentary Aramaic inscription on marble, found by Bossert in Hemite on the Pyramos; Achaemenid period; probably votive inscription referring to a building). - 48-55 E. Cavaignac: Hepat de Comana et les Amazones (with pl. V) (The relief of the so-called King's Gate at Bogazköy is again - wrongly - inteiprotod as a goddess and connected with Hebat and the Amazones). - 56-65 Elise Baumgartel: Tomb and Fertility (with pls. VI-VII) (Attempt to explain the extraordinary care which the Egyptians levished on their tombs. Nagada vessels with representations of a goddess, female figurines in tombs and a "letter to the dead" expressing the wish for male offspring are evidence for a close connection between tombs and fertility). - 66-74 Zdenko Vinski: Zwei kahnförmige Ohrringe aus Erdut in Kroatien (with pls. VIII-IX) (A pair of silver earrings in the Zagreb museum; 5th century B.C. [late Hallstatt to early Latäne], compared with almost identical earrings from Radolisto in Macedonia; Greek import. Comparative study of similar shapes of earlier and later datc in the estern Mediterranian, and Hither Asia). - 75-79 Muhibbe Anstock-Darga: Ein Relief aus dem Bertiz-Tal (with pls. X-XII) (Limestone block, found in the cemetery of the village of Agabeyli, in the Bertiz valley, north of Maras; three bearded men approaching a smaller female figure; compared with reliefs from Maras and Karatepe and dated to the Late Hittite period). - 8o-99 Clemens Bosch: Die Fest- spiele von Nikaia (with pl. XIII) (Original German version of an article published in Turkish in Belleten XII [19+8] pp. 325-3-48. Inscriptions and coins bearing on the agones of Nicea-Iznik). - ioo-io2 R. D. Bamett: A Group of Seals (with i tig. and pls. XIV-XVI) (Seals in the collection of the Rev. Kenna: i) steatite stamp seal: lying fawn; 2) biconical bead of blackish steatite, acquired in Cyprus, with inscription-like rows of figures; 3) lentoid seal of Late Hittite type, acquired at Homs: figure of a man on one face, Hittite hieroglyphs on both; 4) lentoid Hittite seal, acquired at Homs; identical inscription on both sides: name composed of two signs, the second being gar- (qum); type seems imperial; 5) eight-sided conoid stamp of chalcedony, acquired at Latakiye: bull with Lydian inscription Maneliri, closely connected with a seal in the Cabinet des Medailles with griffin and inscription Maneli). - 103-104 Holger Pedcrsen: Eine tocharische Frage (On Tokh. B nem. , A not. "name", compared with Hitt.läman "name", Lat. nömen, etc. ; especially on the short vowel in Tokh.). - I05-107 Rene Dussaud: A propos de la venue des Hittites et des Hourrites en Syrie (Against an exaggerated use of the terms Hittite and Hurrian in the archaeology of Syria and in favour of the term "Phoenician art").—108 A. Dupont-Sommer: Frag- ment d'inscription aramecnne decouvert ä Bahadirh (Cilicie) (with fig. 5 on pl. IV) (Basalt fragment from village B. near Karatepe; too small for interpretation). - iog-ii2 Kleine Mitteilungen: I09 Bossert's thanks to contributors to bis "Festschrift"; - 110 R. D. Barnett on forthcoming publications on (vol. III by Woolley, not yet out) and Atchana (S. Smith, The Stafue of Idri mi); - 110 f. Enzo Evangelisti on a meeting of the Sodalizio Glottologico Milanese (Milan, June, 1950); in f. Carl Paeschke on the fate of Schliemann's finds from Troy (formerly in the Berlin Museum für Völkerkunde, lost in World War II). Heft 2 (November, 1950). II3-135 Sedat Alp: Die soziale Klasse der NAM.RA-Leute und ihre hethitische Bezeichnung (German version of an article published in Turkish in Belleten XIII [1949] pp. 245-270. The logogram NAM.RA which, in Babylonia, has only the meaning "booty", is used in Hitt. as designation for a class of people, namely, individuals or groups removed from their homeland and settled elsewhere by the victorious Hittites. The relevant texts are discussed but no one-word is offered. The Hitt. reading of the logogram is arnuruala- from arnu- "cause to arrive, move, bring" with a suffix -ala- the function of which is discussed in detail). - 136-141 Vladimir Georgiev: Sur l'origine et la langue des Pelasges, des Philistins, des Danaens et des Acheens (Paper read at the 2ist International Congress of Orientalists held in Paris, July, 1948. Advocates relationship and Indo-European language for the peoples under discussion). - 142-150 Alice Kober: A Note on Some "Cattle" Tablets from Knossos (with 2 figs.) (Analysis of 17 tahlets in "Linear 13" script; on the basis of the extant numerals, the value of a sign that looks like two inverted "s" is determined as being one third of the larger unit conventionally called "value"; the "double s" is not a fraction sign but rather the name of a fixed unit, three of which equal one "value"). - 151-155 Johannes Sundwall: Die Doppelaxt in postpositiver Stellung in Zeichen- gruppen knossischer B-Täfelchen (with 4 figs.) (Discussion of a few cases in which the sign "double axe" stands at the end of a group as opposed to the more common occurrence at the beginning. The question whether it has an ideographic [post-determinative] or phonetic value is left open).- 156-163 Giovanui Pugliese Carratelli: Ahhijavä, Lazpa et leur divinites dans KUB V 6 (For Hrozny's equation of the country Ahhiyawä of the Hittite records with Rhodes, the author adduccs evidence from new excavations on the island which show that Mycenean civilzation was well establishcd there around 1400 B.C. Concerning the question as to whether Lazpa = Lesbos, he invalidates Diodor's statement that Lesbos was formerly called Issa [which was considered by Sommer as evidence against the equation] by a passage from Stephanos of Byzance according to which Issa was only the name of a town on the island. Traces of old goddesses in Rhodes and Lesbos are combined with the deities of Ahhiyawä and Lazpa mentioned in a Hittite text). -