After the Hittites: The Kingdoms of Karkamish and Palistin in Northern Syria [PDF]
, 2013 The disappearance and weakening of the Late Bronze Age territorial empires in the Eastern Mediterranean shortly after 1200 BC is traditionally held to be followed by a so-called Dark Age of around 300 years, characterized by a lack of written sources ...
Weeden, Mark
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Spelling, phonology and etymology in Hittite historical linguistics, a review article on Kloekhorst, A. Etymological Dictionary of the Hittite Inherited Lexicon (Leiden: 2008) [PDF]
, 2011 This review article addresses the representation of glottal stops in Akkadian and Hittite ...
Bürde +39 more
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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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Tuwati and Wasusarma: Imitating the behaviour of Assyria [PDF]
, 2010 This essay reviews the evidence concerning the Tabalian king Wasusarma and his father Tuwati, who appear in Neo-Assyrian and Urartian annals. The context for the removal of Wasusarma (Uassurme) from power by the Assyrian king is assumed to have lain in ...
Akdoğan +51 more
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Mycenaean Textile Memories in Homeric Terminology [PDF]
, 2016 The present paper aims at investigating continuity and disruption between Mycenaean and Homeric Greek in the field of technical terminology pertaining to the textile craft.
Gasbarra, Valentina
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The Trialectics of Knowledge, Space and Identity in Ancient Civilizations and in the Study of Antiquity [PDF]
, 2016 Topoi research group B-4 Space – Identity – Locality focuses its research on the interconnections between knowledge, space and identities. A multiplicity of sources – texts, images, architecture and objects – are analyzed both in their historical context
Bernbeck, Reinhard +7 more
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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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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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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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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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