Such boots, in fact, are snow-shoes, admirably adapted to the inhabitants of the mountain-ranges of Asia Minor, but wholly unsuited for the hot plains of Syria.

When, therefore, on the walls of the Ramesseum we find the Theban artists depicting the defenders of Kadesh on the Orontes with them, we may conclude that the latter had come from the colder north just as certainly as we may conclude, from the use of similar shoes among the Turks, that they also have come from a northern home.

In the Hittite system of hieroglyphic writing, the boot with upturned end occupies a prominent place.
When the Tel el-Amarna tablets were written (B.C.

1400), the Hittites were advancing on the Egyptian province of Syria.

Tunip, or Tennib, near Aleppo, had fallen, and both Amorites and Canaanites were intriguing with the invader.