Warriors of Anatolia. A Concise History of the Hittites - Trevor Bryce

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hieroglyphic form. So, for example, Tudhaliya IV could instantly be
identified in his inscriptions by the hieroglyphic form of his name
at the beginning of them–thefigure of a god wearing a horned hat,
with a mountain representing the lower half of his body, and below
it an upturned boot. The name was commonly accompanied by the
insignia of royalty: a winged sun disk above thefigure, and the
hieroglyphic symbols for‘Great King’and‘Labarna’on either side


Figure 11.3 Tudhaliya IV, Yazılıkaya.


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