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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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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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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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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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The Jericho Oasis Archaeological Park - 2015 Interim Report. Italian-Palestinian cooperation for protection and valorization of archaeological heritage [PDF]
In April 2015, the Italian Cooperation, Sapienza University of Rome and the Palestinian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities started the Project “Oasis of Jericho” aimed at the implementation of the Jericho Oasis Archaeological Park (JOAP) by means of ...
Hamdan, Iyad +3 more
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A Goddess and a City or How to Read the Hieroglyphic Luwian Sign MANUS+MANUS
This paper argues that the unusual determinative MANUS+MANUS of the goddess Pahalati in Hama that resisted explanation until now can be understood due to its new attestation in the logographic spelling of a Cilician toponym.
Zsolt Simon
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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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The Concept of Purity in Ancient Anatolian Religions: Water’s Sanctity in Purification
Purification, considered essential in ancient Anatolia, was the crown of religious rituals. Providing the most comprehensive archive of ancient Anatolia, The Hittite texts have many terms related to purity.
Nuriye Külahlı
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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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Notwithstanding her Kizzuwatnean origins, Maliya becomes part of the Bronze Age Hittite State Cult thanks to Queen Puduḫepa, who advocates a renovation of the dynastic cult.
Livio Warbinek, Federico Giusfredi
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