Artatama I, Mittanian king, 72
Artatama II, Mittanian king, 83–4, 89
arzana-house, 141 – 3
Arzawa lands, 30, 49–50, 62, 66, 67,
76, 78–9, 109–11, 113
‘Arzawa Minor/Proper’, 49, 62, 65,
109 – 10
Ashur, 45
Asmunikal, Hittite queen, 71
Assuwa, 62– 3
Assyria, 45, 90–1, 108, 112–13, 166,
191, 228, 229, 237– 8
Assyrian colony period, 22– 3
Attarissiya, Ahhiy(aw)an leader, 53,
67, 68
Ay, pharaoh, 88
Aziru, Amurrite terrorist ruler,
159 – 60
Azzi-Hayasa, 76, 78, 113
Babylon(ia), 39, 228, 229, 238
banishment, royal family members,
35 – 8, 188, 200
Behistun (Bisitun) monument, 10
BEL MADGALTI(regional
governor), 128
Beycesultan, 50
biblical Hittites, 9, 24
bilingual inscriptions, 33
birthing, 125
Boghazkale (Boghazköy), 12, 27
‘booty people’, 149;see also
deportation, deportees
burial practices, 101;see also
funerary rites, Hittite kings
Burkhardt, Johann (Sheik Ibrahim),
adventurer, antiquarian, 10
Burnaburiash, Babylonian king, 229
Byblos, 267
Carchemish, 56, 85–6, 87, 108,
112 – 13, 267
Champollion, Jean-Francois,
philologist, 9– 10
Chantre, Ernest, archaeologist, 12
Charles II, English king, 265– 6
Cilicia, 161
‘Concentric Invasions’,76
Councils of Elders, 128
cuneiform scripts, 13–14, 16–17,
33, 267
Cyprus,seeAlasiya
Damascus, 85, 165, 184
Danuhepa,seeTanuhepa
deification of Hittite kings, 101 – 3
deportation, deportees, 63, 88,
110 – 11 , 161, 177 – 8 , 192–3,
235, 259;see also‘booty people’
diplomacy, 58, 81–3;see alsotreaties
diplomatic missions, 224 – 8
diseases, spread of, 119– 20
Egypt, 44–5, 69, 72, 158 – 66 , 228
Emirgazi, 103
Ephesos,seeApasa
festivals, 248 – 9
AN.TAH.SUM, 248
Purulli, 252
food shortages, 258 – 60 , 262
Forrer, Emil, philologist, 52 – 4
funerary rites, Hittite kings, 99 – 100 ,
214
GAL.MESHEDI, Chief of royal
bodyguard, 98, 170
Gassiya, 76
geography, Hittite world, 46 – 52
gods, 241 – 53
arbiters of justice, 253
representations of, 250
syncretisms, 241
governors, regional,see BEL
MADGALTI
grain imports, 132–3, 265, 238–9,
259 – 60, 262, 265
Great Kings,‘Club’of, 224 – 30
Habiru, 158
Hakpis, 184, 185, 187, 233
Hani, Egyptian envoy, 87
INDEX 283