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单词 Hamathite
释义 Hamathite|ˈheɪməθaɪt|
[f. Hamath, the biblical name for Hama in western Syria + -ite1.]
An inhabitant of the ancient Syrian city of Hamath; also, a script found in the Taurus mountains, now called ‘Hittite’. Also attrib.
1611Bible Gen. x. 18 The Aruadite, the Zemarite, and the Hamathite.1880Encycl. Brit. XII. 26/1 Professor Sayce's view that the Hittites were the authors of the Hamathite hieroglyphics.1926D. G. Hogarth Kings of Hittites 2 Hamathite territory is..the nearest to Galilee in which any sure evidence of occupation by Hittite civilization..has yet appeared.1952O. R. Gurney Hittites 3 The same script had been noticed by E. J. Davis on the great rock-carving over a stream at Irriz in the Taurus mountains. Davis had then called the script ‘Hamathite’.
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