Warriors of Anatolia. A Concise History of the Hittites - Trevor Bryce
point, the Sphinx Gate, and proceed from there down the western staircase to what was undoubtedly the main entrance to the city. ...
complex of mudbrick buildings similar to other buildings located in various parts of the Upper City. Comparable in concept, thou ...
All temples were made of sundried mudbrick on timber frames. Their walls would have been coated in a mud plaster, both inside an ...
This was the temple’s most sacred area, for it housed the statue of the temple’s deity, life-sized or larger and gleaming in the ...
shrines of Greek deities, were bathed in light by windows which reached almost to thefloor. No doubt window-screens were install ...
complex of which the temple-proper was the nucleus extended over 14,500 sq. m. On a smaller scale, many of the other temples, bo ...
Yenicekale (‘Newish Castle’) and Nişantaş(‘Marked Rock’) are of particular significance. Their locations indicated on the city-p ...
Anatolia. Though it was once thought to be Suppiluliuma’s tomb, the scholar David Hawkins concluded, with widespread scholarly a ...
time in the late thirteenth century. Persons granted entry to the complex via a southern gate (visiting dignitaries and diplomat ...
Other beings of lower social status, builders’ and agricultural labourers, farmers etc., lived outside the city, in no doubt num ...
intended for redistribution in the capital and other parts of the homeland. Seeher’s excavations also uncovered a second storage ...
backdrop to ceremonial performances, the Lion Gate, which was the main public entrance into the city, and directly opposite in t ...
embarked on his enterprise abroad before receiving the final farewell at the departure gate from the deities’son Sharrumma. Any ...
assistance. Small clay models of Hittite walls and towers and other evidence from the Hittite period were used as a basis for th ...
months heavy rainfalls sometimes occur, and large sheets of plastic were used to cover the newly made bricks when dark clouds be ...
over 1,000 tonnes of water) to transport the materials to the places where the bricks were made, and then to the site where they ...
CHAPTER 22 An Elite Fraternity: The Club of Royal Brothers AROYAL DIPLOMATIC MISSION A s thefirst rays of dawn light the eastern ...
emissaries to his palace on the city’s acropolis. Here their leader, Ramesses’diplomat-in-chief, will hold audience with him. In ...
recites a letter from the pharaoh to the Hittite king, having committed every detail of it to memory.^1 His words are carefully ...
Puduhepa who shares his displeasure. Has his Royal Brother really said this? He looks across inquiringly at the scribe who is ch ...
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