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State Correspondence in the Hittite World [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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Review Article: A Hittite Trio [PDF]

open access: yes, 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
core   +1 more source

Mirroring the god: topic, images and word-order in the hieroglyphic Luwian inscription ALEPPO 6

open access: yes, 2020
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
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Historicality of the King: An Exercise in Reading Royal Inscriptions from the Ancient Levant [PDF]

open access: yes, 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
core   +1 more source

Collapse or transformation? Regeneration and innovation at the turn of the first millennium BC at Arslantepe, Turkey [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
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]

open access: yes, 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
core   +1 more source

Some Hieroglyphic Fragments from the 2011 Season at Karkemish [PDF]

open access: yes, 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
core   +2 more sources

Anatolian Hiyeroglyphic Inscription on a Stele of Tarhunza from Ereğli (Konya): İVRİZ 2

open access: yesGephyra
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
doaj   +1 more source

Diversity and standardization [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
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
core   +1 more source

IRON AGE LEVANTINE POLITIES AND THEIR MATERIAL CULTURE, WITH A CASE STUDY FROM TEL REḤOV, NORTHERN ISRAEL

open access: yesOxford Journal of Archaeology, Volume 43, Issue 4, Page 357-372, November 2024.
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
wiley   +1 more source

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