Warriors of Anatolia. A Concise History of the Hittites - Trevor Bryce
acceptance as a Great King by your peers, and once they accepted you, they addressed you as their Royal Brother. But let’s be cl ...
Indeed, the claim that Akhenaten neglected his kingdom’s international interests seems to be negated by one of our most importan ...
missions from one Royal Brother to another played an important role in maintaining a reasonably high level of political stabilit ...
CHAPTER 23 The Empire’s Struggle for Survival T here could have been fresh problems in the royal family over the succession when ...
battle experience by sending him on campaigns in the Kaska region. He may even have made Tudhaliya his co-regent for a time, as ...
whom Tudhaliya’s father Hattusili had overthrown. Tudhaliya and Kurunta were cousins, and had become particularly close friends ...
allegiance to Tudhaliya and seizing his throne briefly before Tudhaliya won it back. What were thought to be indications of a de ...
the vassal throne up for grabs when he died. Its new occupant immediately repudiated all links with Hatti, and led his kingdom i ...
This raises several questions. Firstly, who was this regional overlord? The best answer, I believe, is provided by David Hawkins ...
The most interesting feature of this clause is itsinitialinclusion of the Ahhiyawan king amongst Tudhaliya’s peers, and then the ...
We have only the Assyrian version of this battle and its outcome. This is preserved in a letter which Tukulti-Ninurta wrote to T ...
bases for attacking ships with lucrative cargoes passing through or across the eastern Mediterranean. Despite the mounting press ...
CHAPTER 24 Hatti’s Divine Overlords THETHOUSANDGODS ‘L and of a Thousand Gods!’Though this proud Hittite boast was a somewhat ex ...
sun gods and Ishtars (or Ishtar-equivalents) in the texts, often located in obscure parts of the Hittite realm. Tolerance in rec ...
progressive Hurrianisation of many aspects of Hittite civilisation, particularly religious aspects, during the thirteenth centur ...
in Luwian hieroglyphs which accompany them (though in many cases the names are too worn to read). The deities have Hurrian names ...
He is identified by a royal cartouche, a panel carved on the wall to the left of his head bearing his name in hieroglyphs, surmo ...
incantation priest making clay images of deities banished to the Underworld in the shape of swords plunged into the ground. So h ...
Figure 24.4The Sword God, Yazılıkaya. ...
there. The statue could have been that of a god. But could it alternatively have been a statue of the king, set up in the place ...
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