Index
Page nos inboldindicate main refs.
Abdi-Ashirta, Amurrite terrorist
ruler, 158– 9
Achaians, 53
Adad-nirari, Assyrian king, 189
afterlife, perceptions of, 100– 1
Agamemnon, legendary Mycenaean
king, 52– 3
Ahhiya (shortened early form of
Ahhiyawa), 67
Ahhiyawa, 53 – 5 , 109, 162, 192–4,
235, 236 – 7
Akhenaten (Amenhotep IV),
pharaoh, 10, 81–3, 88, 158–60,
228 – 9, 261
Akhetaten, 10, 228, 229
Akkadian language, 12–13, 33, 225– 6
Alaca Höyük, 48, 250
sphinx, 206 (image)
Alaksandu, ruler of Wilusa, 53,
162, 179
Alaksandu treaty, 162, 179
Alalah (Tell Atchana), 29
Alasiya (Cyprus), 69, 70, 238–9, 258,
261 – 2
Aleppo, 29, 32, 39, 56, 59 – 60
alphabetic scripts, 17
Amarna letters, 10, 159, 228 – 9
Amenhotep II, pharaoh, 72
Amenhotep III, pharaoh, 65, 158– 9
Ammishtamru II, ruler of Ugarit, 155
Ammuna, Hittite king, 41– 2
Ammurapi, ruler of Ugarit, 261
Amurru, 72, 155, 158–60, 165,
238, 260
Amurrite terrorist clan, 158 – 60
Anatolia
definition, 4– 5
Late Bronze Age political
geography, 47 – 52
ancestor cults, 100– 1
Anitta, ruler of Nesa, 23
Ankhesenamun, Egyptian queen, 88
Apasa (Classical Ephesos?), 49
Aramaic, 17
Arawanna, 76
Arinna,seeSun Goddess of
Arma-Tarhunda, member of royal
family, 184, 186
Armatana, 76
army, Hittite, 167 – 82
campaign logistics, 176– 7
cavalry, 175
chariotry, 172 – 5
composition, 169 – 70
discipline, 175– 6
garrison troops, 180– 1
mercenaries, 163, 167, 169
oaths sworn by soldiers, 144
recruitment, 169
size, 163, 167, 168
weapons and armour, 170 – 2
Arnuwanda I, Hittite king, 66 – 72
Arnuwanda II, Hittite king, 86, 107
Arnuwanda III, Hittite king, 253, 256