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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
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

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

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

The Jericho Oasis Archaeological Park - 2015 Interim Report. Italian-Palestinian cooperation for protection and valorization of archaeological heritage [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
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

open access: yesAsia Anteriore Antica
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
doaj   +1 more source

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

The Concept of Purity in Ancient Anatolian Religions: Water’s Sanctity in Purification

open access: yesAnadolu Araştırmaları
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
doaj   +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

Maliya, Malija, Malis, Athena. From Kizzuwatna to the Aegean: Borrowings, Translations, or Syncretisms?

open access: yesAsia Anteriore Antica
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
doaj   +1 more source

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