Recently Professor Harald Ingholt generously donated to the Yale Babylonian Collection a Hittite cylinder seal from the empire period, which has received the inventory number YBC 16575. The piece, which is of copper and measures 24·5 × 11 mm., is in excellent condition and shows little sign of wear – see Plate XX and Figure 1. According to Professor Ingholt, he purchased the seal in the 1930s in the bazaar of Beirut, a city which lies outside of the area controlled by the Hittite empire at the greatest extent of its expansion, but which at the time of the acquisition of the seal was linked by daily train service to Adana in Cilicia, the rail line running through the heart of what had once been the southern domains of the Hittites.