The Babylonian World (Routledge Worlds)

but such expansion always awakened competition, and thus periods of expansion were short-lived. Neither the Akkadian empire of t ...

Therefore, the absence of major states in Iron Age Syria and Egypt opened the way for the larger empires. It is thus highly prob ...

contrast, was based on discourse and communication: even the imagery was intended to convey easily understandable messages. The ...

also to Egypt because of the conflict with Hatti. In the same way, the Elamites were relevant to Hatti because of their conflict ...

set off (cf. Kitchen 1982 : 90 – 91 ). There have been suggestions that Thutmosis III actually met a Babylonian king after his c ...

CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE A VIEW FROM HATTUSA  Trevor Bryce A round 1595 BC,^1 the Hittite king Mursili I, fresh from his conquest ...

over conquered territory which lay so far to the south-east of his own homeland. Particularly in this early period of their hist ...

diplomacy for both Hittites and Kassites alike at this stage of their development. Most likely, Mursili’s expedition against Bab ...

in the region would not extend into Babylonian territory. Kings do not attack the lands of their fathers-in-law! Suppiluliuma cl ...

no evil to Tawananna, nor in any way humiliated her. As she governed the house of the king and the Land of Hatti in the lifetime ...

But for the remainder of Mursili’s reign, and that of his son and successor Muwattalli (II), attention in the Syria-Palestine re ...

and the following excerpts from Hattusili’s letter to Kadashman-Enlil are translated by Beckman 1999 : 138 – 43 .) The claims th ...

an acrimonious exchange of correspondence between the Hittite and Babylonian royal courts. The Babylonian vizier Itti-Marduk-bal ...

Enlil’s failure to respond to his earlier declarations of friendship and support: ‘But my brother was a child in those days, and ...

king Kashtiliash IV, Tukulti-Ninurta may have taken the view that he should secure his southern boundaries before venturing upon ...

contain both oracle texts in the original Akkadian versions and also Hittite versions of such texts. Extispicy was one of a numb ...

Gasche, H., Armstrong, J. and Cole, S. W. ( 1998 ) Dating the Fall of Babylon, a Reappraisal of Second- Millennium Chronology. C ...

CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX RELATIONS BETWEEN BABYLONIA AND THE LEVANT DURING THE KASSITE PERIOD  P. S. Vermaak INTRODUCTION T he rela ...

In our present context we need to adopt a broader perspective to connect larger regions of the ancient world, such as North Afri ...

called the ‘Golden Age’ due to the variety and abundance of available sources, mainly from Ugarit, Amarna, Boghazköy and Nippur. ...