CHAPTER6THESETTING FOR ANEMPIRE
- For a series of maps depicting the lands of the Hittite kingdom and its
contemporaries during the Middle and Late Bronze Ages, see Trevor Bryce
and Jessie Birkett-Rees,Atlas of the Ancient Near East(London and
New York, 2016), pp. 106–54. - See J. David Hawkins,‘Tarkasnawa, King of Mira“Tarkondemos”Boğazköy
Sealings and Karabel’,Anatolian Studies48 (1998), pp. 1–10. - *Gary Beckman, Trevor Bryce and Eric Cline, The Ahhiyawa Texts
(Atlanta, 2011), pp. 134–9.
CHAPTER7BUILDING ANEMPIRE
- *Gary Beckman,Hittite Diplomatic Texts(Atlanta, 1999), pp. 93–5.
- See Bryce,The Kingdom of the Hittites(Oxford, 2005), pp. 124–7, with
references and quoted passages. - *William Moran,The Amarna Letters(Baltimore and London, 1992),
p. 101, no. 31.
CHAPTER8LION ORPUSSYCAT?
- *Beckman, Bryce, Cline,The Ahhiyawa Texts, pp. 69–100.
- It seems that Arnuwanda was the recipient of the letter, perhaps while still
co-regent. - After*Itamar Singer,Hittite Prayers(Atlanta, 2002), p. 42.
- *Beckman,Hittite Diplomatic Texts, pp. 13–17.
CHAPTER9FROMNEAREXTINCTION TO THETHRESHOLD
OFSUPREMACY
- For a discussion of these, with a selection of translated texts, see Trevor
Bryce,Letters of the Great Kings of the Ancient Near East(London and
New York, 2003/14), pp. 170–86. - After*Albrecht Goetze,Kizzuwatna and the Problems of Hittite Geography
(New Haven, 1940), pp. 21–2. - See*Hans Güterbock,‘The Deeds of Suppiluliuma as told by his son,
Mursili II’,Journal of Cuneiform Studies10 (1956), pp. 41–68, 75–98,
101 – 30, for translations of the surviving fragments.
CHAPTER10 THEGREATESTKINGDOM OFTHEMALL
- *After Moran,The Amarna Letters, p. 114, no. 41, lines 7–13. I have
concluded that the letter’s addressee was either Smenkhkare (Akhenaten’s
co-regent and short-lived successor), or Smenkhkare’ssuccessor
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