Warriors of Anatolia. A Concise History of the Hittites - Trevor Bryce
changes with the change of the angle of the sun, the deities appear to emerge slowly from their rock dwellings, atfirst faintly, ...
included. Indeed these texts served as instruction manuals for the conduct of the festivals, with detailed accounts of all the p ...
THE HUMAN FACE OF THE GODS The Hittites didn’t know what their gods actually looked like because they could take whatever form t ...
location (obviously an impossibility in a monotheistic belief system). Sometimes the great Storm God himself is the offending de ...
his return, with appropriate liturgies and ritualistic activity to welcome him home. Other Hittite myths too have to do with ren ...
‘VENGEANCE IS MINE’ One last word about the gods. While they had plenty of shortcomings of their own, they were the ultimate arb ...
CHAPTER 25 Death of an Empire 1 ON THE VERGE OF DISINTEGRATION T he longest of all hieroglyphic inscriptions is carved on a clif ...
Urhi-Teshub, the legimitately installed king overthrown by Suppiluliuma’s grandfather Hattusili. Were they still intent on putti ...
Urhi-Teshub’s (step-?)brother Kurunta had remained loyal to Hattusili and his son and successor Tudhaliya, and had been given r ...
May I invite you to play the part of detective and try to reconstruct from these snippets a plausible scenario for what was goin ...
cliff-face called Nişantaşin Hattusa was a public record of his achievements, one in which his victorious southern campaign no d ...
Remember that since the core land of Hatti had no sea outlets, the ships in Suppiluliuma’sfleet must have come from allied coast ...
transportation of large quantities of grain from Egypt to the homeland via Hittite-controlled ports on the southern Anatolian co ...
predecessors Merneptah (1213–1203). On the walls of his temple at Medinet Habu, Ramesses tells us of the trail of destruction le ...
Suppiluliuma’s naval operations off Alasiya’s coast. One of the chief objects of these operations must have been to ensure safe ...
And Ura, probably the most important seaport from where goods brought by sea were transported to the homeland, very likely lay w ...
Of course, this new scenario raises two big questions. Suppiluliuma could not have simply walked out into the wilds of Anatolia ...
Hattusa after its reduction in status, just as Muwattalli had done. But we have no proof of any of this, for the kingdom’s writt ...
London and relocate the royal courtfirst in Salisbury, until the plague struck there as well, and then in Oxford. The early deca ...
Ugarit. But others survived and gained a new lease of life, like Byblos and Tyre in the Levant. In southeastern Anatolia and nor ...
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