Warriors of Anatolia. A Concise History of the Hittites - Trevor Bryce
face value. A furious letter from the pharaoh’s widow accompanied the diplomats. In it the young queen took Suppiluliuma to task ...
tensions between the two kingdoms continued to mount from this time onwards,finally culminating in the famous battle of Qadesh i ...
Great King of Mittani. It was a title in name only. Shattiwaza was no more than a puppet ruler subject to the Hittite Great King ...
which would quickly take over all Mittani’s former territories east of the Euphrates and pose a serious threat to Hittite territ ...
CHAPTER 11 Intermediaries of the Gods: The Great Kings of Hatti B efore we see how Hittite history unfolded after Suppiluliuma’s ...
the beginning of the Hittite era. And while they mingled with the indigenous and much larger Hattian population, a number of the ...
and ankle-length robe of priestly office, and carries a staff with curved end, another of his insignia of office. In royal propa ...
substitution rital, the difference being that in the Babylonian one, the substitutewasactually executed at the end of his brief ...
with cartloads of treasure taken from his victims, provided the king’s subjects with tangible evidence of his prowess as a great ...
local garrison commander over property and taxes successfully appealed to the king against a lower court ruling which had found ...
responsibilities and commitments must have led to frequent delegation of this role to another member of his family or to someone ...
from Telipinu’s Proclamation, sons from concubines were eligible to succeed to the throne in the event that the king’s chief wif ...
and burial. Feasting and sacrifices continue for several days. Then on Day 6, the bones are taken to what is called thehekur-hou ...
But this one-off text may be unduly negative. Archaeological evidence gives a slightly more positive impression. We haven’t foun ...
one of them, the down-to-earth, no-nonsense ex-military commander Vespasian, was highly scornful of this deification rubbish. An ...
been correctly interpreted. Since libations were made only to gods, this would imply that Tudhaliya now presented himself to his ...
monuments, as Sayce and others had supposed, but the language, written hieroglyphically, of one of their subject populations–the ...
hieroglyphic form. So, for example, Tudhaliya IV could instantly be identified in his inscriptions by the hieroglyphic form of h ...
of it. All this is depicted in the small group carvings inFigure 11.3. Similarly, a king’s seal could instantly be recognised by ...
CHAPTER 12 King by Default A‘MERE CHILD’ON THE THRONE T he problems confronting Suppiluliuma’s son and second successor Mursili ...
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