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C. The Hittites were the most powerful people in Syria and Asia Minor, and the main intermediaries through whom the arts of Chaldaea and Babylonia were transmitted to the shores of the Euxine, Propontic, and iEgean seas ; and after the annihilation of the Hittite nationality by Sargon [II], although the modified Babylonian arts of Assyria, chiefly exported from Mesopotamia by sea, and in the course of the coasting trade between Phoenicia and Hellas, served to exert a specific influence on the p...roto -Ionic art of Lycia, Caria, Lydia, and Mysia, they continued also to find their way westward by the immemorial overland routes through Cappadocia, Phrygia, and Lydia ; so that it is almost impossible to set bounds, either in geo- graphical area, or in historic time, to the influence of the Hittites on the arts of the Old World.
The art of Greece, in its earlier prehistoric examples, antecedent to the twelfth century B. C. , was exclusively 214 THE EMPIRE OF THE HITTITES derived from Chaldsea and Babylonia, through the Hit- tites ; and in its later prehistoric period, between the twelfth and eighth centuries, although Greece was at this time in communication, through the Phoenicians, with both Egypt and Mesopotamia, it continued to be predominantly influenced, through the intervention of the Hittites, by that of Mesopotamia, then centred in Assyria.


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