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Identifier: cu31924091767503 (find matches)
Title: History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Maspero, G. (Gaston), 1846-1916 Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry), 1845-1933 McClure, M. L., d. 1918
Subjects: Civilization, Ancient History, Ancient
Publisher: London : Grolier Society
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
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ep banks and the tortuous course ofthe Halys failed to arrest them ; and they pushed forwardbeyond the mysterious regions peopled by the WhiteSyrians, where the ancient civilisation of Asia Minor stillheld its sway. The search for precious metals mainlydrew them on—the gold and silver, the copper, bronze, andabove all iron, which the Chalybes found in theirmountains, and which were conveyed by caravans fromthe regions of the Caucasus to the sacred towns of Teiriaand Pteria. The friendly relations into which they 1 The site of Pteria has been fixed at Boghaz-keui by Texier, an identi-fication which has been generally adopted ; Euyuk is very probably Teiria, a 104 THE POWER OF ASSYRIA AT ITS ZENITH entered with the natives on these journeys resulted beforelong in barter and intermarriage, though their influencemade itself felt in different ways, according to the characterof the people on whom it was brought to bear. They gaveas a legacy to Phrygia one of their alphabets, that of Kyme,
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THE STEEP BANKS OF THE HALTS FAILED TO AEEEST THEM. which soon banished the old Hittite syllabary from themonuments, and they borrowed in exchange Phrygiancustoms, musical instruments, traditions, and religious town of the Leucosyrians, mentioned by Hecatseus of Miletus in hiswork. 1 Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from a photograph by A. Boissier. Theroad leading from Angora to Yuzgat crosses the river not far from the siteshown here, near the spot where the ancient road crossed. THE CONSTITUTION OF THE LYDIAN KINGDOM 105 orgies. A Midas sought in marriage Hermodike, thedaughter of Agamemnon the Kymaean, while anotherMidas, who had consulted the oracle of Delphi, presentedto the god the chryselephantine throne on which he waswont to sit when he dispensed justice. This interchange

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