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State Correspondence in the Hittite World [PDF]
, 2014 Chapter surveys the corpus of letters between officials and the royal family to throw light on mechanisms of communication and decision-making within the Late Bronze Age Hittite ...
Weeden, Mark
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The Storm-Gods of the Ancient Near East: Summary, Synthesis, Recent Studies. Part II [PDF]
, 2007 In many regions of the ancient Near East, not least in Upper Mesopotamia, Syria and Anatolia where agriculture relied mainly on rainfall, storm-gods ranked among the most prominent gods in the local panthea or were even regarded as divine kings, ruling ...
Schwemer, Daniel
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Review Article: A Hittite Trio [PDF]
, 2012 A review of ANDREAS SCHACHNER, 'Hattuscha: auf der Suche nach dem sagenhaften Großreich der Hethiter' München: C.H.Beck, 2011; TREVOR BRYCE, 'The world of the Neo-Hittite kingdoms: a political and military history' Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012 ...
Weeden, Mark
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Hittite Scribal Schools Outside of Hattusa? [PDF]
, 2011 The article investigates the meagre textual evidence for Hittite scribal schools outside of Hattusa against the background of new excavations and the questions they raise about the social context of Hittite cuneiform writing. The use of the term é.dub.ba(
Weeden, Mark
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King Midas' Ass's Ears Revisited [PDF]
, 2008 On several occasions the Phrygian King Midas was portrayed with donkey’s ears in Greek literature and art. There is no text that offers a plausible explanation of Midas’ strange appearance and later commentators provide many competing stories to account ...
Vassileva, Maya
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The Hieroglyphic Luwian -si Again [PDF]
Lingua Posnaniensis, 2010 The Hieroglyphic Luwian -siAgainWe recognize three attestations of the element -siattached to a verbal ending in KARKAMIŠ A11b, A12 and ALEPO 2. The author has already regarded this -sias another reflexive element comparable to the reflexive -ti. Furthermore, we can also point out four more attestations of a similar element -siin the inscriptions ...
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ISTANBUL 2: a hieroglyphic fragment from Tabal in the Haluk Perk Collection [PDF]
, 2011 The article publishes an unprovenanced fragment of a stele housed in the Haluk Perk Museum in Istanbul. Palaeography and manner of inscription suggest an origin in the eighth century BC in the region known to the Neo-Assyrians as Tabal.
Taş, İlknur, Weeden, Mark
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The Historicality of the King: An Exercise in Reading Royal Inscriptions from the Ancient Levant [PDF]
, 2014 The problem with using royal inscriptions as historical sources is their inherent bias. The interests of the king drive the narratives of royal inscriptions. Yet this essential feature reveals their underlying concept of history.
Matthew Suriano
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Anatolian Hiyeroglyphic Inscription on a Stele of Tarhunza from Ereğli (Konya): İVRİZ 2
GephyraIn this article, the first edition of an unpublished Luwian inscription (İVRİZ 2) on a lower part – upper part lost or destroyed – of limestone stele, which was found in İvriz (today Aydınkent), Ereğli-Konya in 1986, now kept in Ereğli Museum, of the 8th
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Some Hieroglyphic Fragments from the 2011 Season at Karkemish [PDF]
, 2014 The article presents some fragments from the 2011 season of the renewed excavations at Karkemish, conducted by the University of Bologna in collaboration with Istanbul University, almost exactly 100 years after the commencement of the British Museum ...
Peker, Hasan, Weeden, Mark
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