The book Hittite Problems And the Excavation of Carchemish was written by author D G David George Hogarth Here you can read free online of Hittite Problems And the Excavation of Carchemish book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Hittite Problems And the Excavation of Carchemish a good or bad book?
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As for the architecture, there are certainly two Hittite periods represented in the stairway and approach. The former had been laid out originally independent of the latter. One of the flanking reliefs (of earlier style) has been shifted to suit the slight angle at which the later approach meets the stair-foot, and the stairs show numerous patches and signs of reconstruction. Such reconstruction cannot, however, have been done after the Assyrian conquest, for purely Hittite sculptures were used... to adorn the latest stairway. The courtyard to which the gate on the north side of the stair leads lies very high, and so does the room dug out by us to the south-west ; but in a trial pit close to the latter a very much lower structure (seven metres down) was revealed. This last will be found, I prophesy, to belong to an earlier palace, and the courtyard and room with the approach and the reconstructed stairway will be relegated to a later the earlier being of the Boghaz Keui period, i. E. Fourteenth and thirteenth centuries B.
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