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State Correspondence in the Hittite World [PDF]
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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Review Article: A Hittite Trio [PDF]
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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Mirroring the god: topic, images and word-order in the hieroglyphic Luwian inscription ALEPPO 6
The presentation provides a short introduction to the Aleppo Temple and the inscriptions discovered during its excavations -ALEPPO 4, 5, 6, 7- (or that are supposed to have come from the Storm-God Temple -BABYLON 1, 2, 3-). Then an analysis of BABYLON 1
Claudia Posani
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The Historicality of the King: An Exercise in Reading Royal Inscriptions from the Ancient Levant [PDF]
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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Collapse or transformation? Regeneration and innovation at the turn of the first millennium BC at Arslantepe, Turkey [PDF]
Ongoing excavations at Arslantepe in south-eastern Turkey are revealing settlement continuity spanning two crucial phases at the transition from the second to the first millennium BC: the post-Hittite period and the development of Syro-Anatolian ...
DI FILIPPO, Francesco +3 more
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ISTANBUL 2: a hieroglyphic fragment from Tabal in the Haluk Perk Collection [PDF]
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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Some Hieroglyphic Fragments from the 2011 Season at Karkemish [PDF]
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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Anatolian Hiyeroglyphic Inscription on a Stele of Tarhunza from Ereğli (Konya): İVRİZ 2
In 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
Belkıs Dinçol +3 more
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Diversity and standardization [PDF]
From the historiographic perspective of the longue durée, the history of the cultures of the ancient Near East appear to have been shaped by astonishingly durable forms of governance or structures of authority.
Cancik-Kirschbaum, Eva, Klinger, Jörg
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Summary The following article deals with the possible association of political entities with specific material culture. By referring to a test case from the southern Levant – that of Late Iron IIA (late tenth–ninth centuries BC) Tel Reḥov and its political affiliation within the context of the regional settlement system, this article discusses the ...
Omer Sergi
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