The Antiquities of Orissa v1.c10.474

v1.c10.474

²³⁹ Mr. Layard does not subscribe to this. He quotes Mr. Birch, who “is inclined to identify the Ruten-nu or Lodan-nu, of the statistical tablet of Karnak with the Cappadocians, or Leuco-Syrians, inhabiting the country to the North and South of the Taurus, who, he conjectures, are also represented at Khorsabad”. He adds : “That the Ruten inhabited a country adjoining the Assyrians, may be inferred, from their being mentioned in geographical lists between Naharaina, (Mesopotamia) and Singara (Sinjar)”. Layard’s *Nineveh*, II. 405.