Warriors of Anatolia. A Concise History of the Hittites - Trevor Bryce
draws Texier’s attention. On it is carved a humanfigure over 2 m tall. Wearing a helmet and short kilt, and armed with axe and s ...
accompanied by a tallerfigure wearing a conical hat with horns attached; he has his arm around his companion in what appears to ...
was clearly an important country. The pharaoh Ramesses II claimed victory over it (wrongly!) in the famous battle of Qadesh on t ...
to prise out these stones (with strong protests from the local people who attributed magical healing powers to them) and ship th ...
(d) the Hittite empire datednot to the Iron Age (late second millennium onwards) but to the preceding Bronze Age, the Late Bronz ...
copy of an Akkadian version of a peace treaty drawn up between one of the most famous of all pharaohs, Ramesses II, sometimes ca ...
logogram. This was a sign representing a single word which was adopted without change in other cuneiform scripts written in diff ...
provided the key to reading and understanding the thousands of tablets and tablet-fragments inscribed in this language, found by ...
CHAPTER 2 How Do The Hittites Tell Us About Themselves? READING THE ANCIENT SCRIPTS W ith Hrozny the curtain began to be drawn a ...
Thus if LUGAL immediately preceded a personal name, we’d know that the person in question was a king, and if a name was preceded ...
persist so long and why were they so widespread in the Near Eastern world? It may all have had to do with tradition, and a relat ...
recessed surfacefilled with wax. Anything written on them could simply be erased and the tablets used again once a particular re ...
the buildings which housed the tablet-archives were destroyed by fire, the shelves on which the tablets were stored disintegrate ...
such matters as the royal succession; (e) festival texts, setting out the procedures to be followed at the numerous annual cerem ...
CHAPTER 3 The Dawn of the Hittite Era L et’s now start building ourselves a picture of the Hittite world.^1 We’ve already noted ...
there probably went back many hundreds if not thousands of years. One of their kingdoms was called Hatti, and its capital Hattus ...
speakers had begun intermingling centuries before the establish- ment of the Hittite kingdom, and we can no longer talk in terms ...
groups in the Hittite world, occupying extensive areas of central, southern and western Anatolia. During the succeeding Iron Age ...
a coup in the northern part of the kingdom. Here a breakaway regime established itself, in a city called Sanahuitta.^6 Was the k ...
gorge or stand atop Büyükkaya. So too will you understand the name of the modern village Boghazkale–‘Gorge Castle’(formerly call ...
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