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Tayinat's Building XVI: the Religious Dimensions and Significance of A
Tayinat’s Building XVI: The Religious Dimensions and Significance of a Tripartite Temple at Neo-Assyrian Kunulua by Douglas Neal Petrovich A thesis submitted in conformity with the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Graduate Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations University of Toronto © Copyright by Douglas Neal Petrovich, 2016 Building XVI at Tell Tayinat: The Religious Dimensions and Significance of a Tripartite Temple at Neo-Assyrian Kunulua Douglas N. Petrovich Doctor of Philosophy Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations University of Toronto 2016 Abstract After the collapse of the Hittite Empire and most of the power structures in the Levant at the end of the Late Bronze Age, new kingdoms and powerful city-states arose to fill the vacuum over the course of the Iron Age. One new player that surfaced on the regional scene was the Kingdom of Palistin, which was centered at Kunulua, the ancient capital that has been identified positively with the site of Tell Tayinat in the Amuq Valley. The archaeological and epigraphical evidence that has surfaced in recent years has revealed that Palistin was a formidable kingdom, with numerous cities and territories having been enveloped within its orb. Kunulua and its kingdom eventually fell prey to the Neo-Assyrian Empire, which decimated the capital in 738 BC under Tiglath-pileser III. After Kunulua was rebuilt under Neo- Assyrian control, the city served as a provincial capital under Neo-Assyrian administration. Excavations of the 1930s uncovered a palatial district atop the tell, including a temple (Building II) that was adjacent to the main bit hilani palace of the king (Building I). -
Antologia Della Letteratura Ittita
UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI PISA Dipartimento di Scienze storiche del mondo antico Giuseppe Del Monte ANTOLOGIA DELLA LETTERATURA ITTITA Servizio Editoriale Universitario di Pisa Aprile 2003 Azienda Regionale D.S.U. - PISA © SEU - Via Curtatone e Montanara 6 - 56126 Pisa - tel/fax 050/540120 aprile 2003 ii SOMMARIO CAPITOLO I. Iscrizioni reali e editti 1-41 a) Iscrizioni dei re di Kusara e Nesa 1. Dalla “Iscrizione di Anitta” 1 b) L’Antico Regno 1. Le “Gesta di Hattusili I” 3 2. Da un editto di Hattusili I 7 3. Dall’Editto di Telipinu 8 c) Il Medio Regno 1. Dagli Annali di Tuthalija I 14 2. Editto di Tuthalija I sulla giustizia 16 3. Dagli Annali di Arnuwanda I 17 4. Editto della Regina Ašmunikal sui mausolei reali 18 d) Il Nuovo Regno 1. Dalle Gesta di Suppiluliuma 20 2. Dagli Annali Decennali di Mursili II 27 3. Dalla Apologia di Hattusili III 32 4. Editto di Hattusili III per i figli di Mitannamuwa 37 5. Suppiluliuma II e la conquista di Alasija 39 CAPITOLO II. Trattati e accordi 43-77 a) Il Medio Regno 1. Dal trattato di Tuthalija I con Šunašura di Kizuwatna 43 2. Da un trattato di Arnuwanda I con i Kaskei 45 3. Preghiera/trattato di Arnuwanda I con i Kaskei 46 4. Lista di ostaggi kaskei da Maşat Höyük/Tapika 51 5. Dalla “Requisitoria contro Madduwatta” 52 6. Dalle Istruzioni ai governatori delle province di frontiera 56 b) Il Nuovo Regno 1. Dal trattato di Suppiluliuma I con Aziru di Amurru 59 2. -
For the Hittite “Royal Guard” During the Old Kingdom: Observations on Elite Military Units and Their Possible Warfare Applications
Athens Journal of Mediterranean Studies - Volume 7, Issue 3, July 2021 – Pages 171-186 The “Protocols” for the Hittite “Royal Guard” during the Old Kingdom: Observations on Elite Military Units and their Possible Warfare Applications By Eduardo Ferreira* In this article, we intend to analyse the importance and modus operandi of a military unit (generally known as “Royal Guard”) whose function was, among other things, the protection of the Hattuša-based Hittite kings. For this essay, we will be mainly using two Hittite textual sources known as “instructions” or “protocols”. We aim to find a connection between these guards and their function regarding the protection of the royal palace as well as their military enlistment in that elite unit. The period to be covered in this analysis comes directly from the choice of sources: the Hittite Old Kingdom, confined between the chronological beacons of the 17th, 16th and 15th centuries BC. With this analysis, we intend to provide some relevant data that may contribute to a better understanding of these elite military units, particularly in regards to their probable warfare functions. Were they used in battle? How were they armed? What was their tactical importance in combat? How was the recruitment done? How were the units formed? These will be some questions that we will try to answer throughout this article. Keywords: guard, palace, command, warfare, infantry Introduction The Hittites were an Indo-European people that arrived in Anatolia through the Caucasus from Eurasia between 2000 and 1900 BC (Haywood 2005, Bryce 2005). On their Indo-European journey to the west, they also brought horses (Raulwing 2000, Renfrew 1990, Joseph and Fritz 2017/2018). -
Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Ancient Near Eastern Studies Studies in Ancient Persia Receptions of the Ancient Near East and the Achaemenid Period in Popular Culture and Beyond edited by John Curtis edited by Lorenzo Verderame An important collection of eight essays on and Agnès Garcia-Ventura Ancient Persia (Iran) in the periods of the This book is an enthusiastic celebration Achaemenid Empire (539–330 BC), when of the ways in which popular culture has the Persians established control over the consumed aspects of the ancient Near East whole of the Ancient Near East, and later the to construct new realities. It reflects on how Sasanian Empire: stone relief carvings from objects, ideas, and interpretations of the Persepolis; the Achaemenid period in Baby- ancient Near East have been remembered, lon; neglected aspects of biblical archaeol- constructed, re-imagined, mythologized, or ogy and the books of Daniel and Isaiah; and the Sasanian period in Iran (AD indeed forgotten within our shared cultural memories. 250–650) when Zoroastrianism became the state religion. 332p, illus (Lockwood Press, March 2020) paperback, 9781948488242, $32.95. 232p (James Clarke & Co., January 2020) paperback, 9780227177068, $38.00. Special Offer $27.00; PDF e-book, 9781948488259, $27.00 Special Offer $31.00; hardcover, 9780227177051, $98.00. Special Offer $79.00 PDF e-book, 9780227907061, $31.00; EPUB e-book, 9780227907078, $30.99 Women at the Dawn of History The Synagogue in Ancient Palestine edited by Agnete W. Lassen Current Issues and Emerging Trends and Klaus Wagensonner edited by Rick Bonnie, Raimo Hakola and Ulla Tervahauta In the patriarchal world of ancient This book brings together leading experts in the field of ancient-synagogue Mesopotamia, women were often studies to discuss the current issues and emerging trends in the study of represented in their relation to men. -
ON LUWIANS and HITTITES*) Itamar SINGER
8367_BIOR_05_5-6_01 30-01-2006 09:10 Pagina 412 429 BIBLIOTHECA ORIENTALIS LXII N° 5-6, september-december 2005 430 ON LUWIANS AND HITTITES*) Itamar SINGER (Tel Aviv) “History is written by the victors” is well demonstrated in ancient Anatolia. Most authorities would agree that Luwian was spoken by at least as many people as Hittite, yet books on the Hittites can easily fill up a library, whereas the reviewed monograph is the first to be entirely dedicated to the Luwians (except for dictionaries). Two ponderous cir- cumstances have teamed together to create this dispropor- tional picture, one inherent, the other accidental. For much of their common history the Hittites dominated the Luwian- speaking areas of Anatolia and, as a great power, they left behind extensive archives fitting their stature. The effects of this political disparity are further intensified by the fortu- itousness of discovery. Not a single tablet was found as yet in the vast territories in which Luwian was spoken (as the main language). To be sure, there must be cuneiform tablets buried in the major sites of western Anatolia, since letters sent from there have been found in Hattusa.1) Ironically, even the first Anatolian tablet to be published in the late 19th cen- tury was sent from the Land of Arzawa in the heart of Luwian-speaking Anatolia. But then, this letter, which was discovered in 1887 at Tell el-Amarna in Egypt, was written *)MELCHERT, H. C. (ed.) The Luwians. HdO 1-68. E.J. Brill Publish- ers, Leiden, 2003. (24 cm, XX, 383). ISBN 90 04 13009 8; ISSN 0169- 9423. -
The Selected Synchronistic Kings of Assyria and Babylonia in the Lacunae of A.117
Appendix III The Selected Synchronistic Kings of Assyria and Babylonia in the Lacunae of A.117 1 Shamshi-Adad I / Ishme-Dagan I vs. Hammurabi The synchronization of Hammurabi and the ruling family of Shamshi-Adad I’s kingdom can be proven by the correspondence between them, including the letters of Yasmah-Addu, the ruler of Mari and younger son of Shamshi-Adad I, to Hammurabi as well as an official named Hulalum in Babylon1 and those of Ishme-Dagan I to Hammurabi.2 Landsberger proposed that Shamshi-Adad I might still have been alive during the first ten years of Hammurabi’s reign and that the first year of Ishme- Dagan I would have been the 11th year of Hammurabi’s reign.3 However, it was also suggested that Shamshi-Adad I would have died in the 12th / 13th4 or 17th / 18th5 year of Hammurabi’s reign and Ishme-Dagan I in the 28th or 31st year.6 If so, the reign length of Ishme-Dagan I recorded in the AKL might be unreliable and he would have ruled as the successor of Shamshi-Adad I only for about 11 years.7 1 van Koppen, MARI 8 (1997), 418–421; Durand, DÉPM, No. 916. 2 Charpin, ARM 26/2 (1988), No. 384. 3 Landsberger, JCS 8/1 (1954), 39, n. 44. 4 Whiting, OBOSA 6, 210, n. 205. 5 Veenhof, AP, 35; van de Mieroop, KHB, 9; Eder, AoF 31 (2004), 213; Gasche et al., MHEM 4, 52; Gasche et al., Akkadica 108 (1998), 1–2; Charpin and Durand, MARI 4 (1985), 293–343. -
HİTİT KRAL AİLE Si ÜYELERİNİN SİYASAL ETKİNLİGİ ÜZERİNE Yard.Doç
HİTİT KRAL AİLE sİ ÜYELERİNİN SİYASAL ETKİNLİGİ ÜZERİNE Yard.Doç. Dr. Turgut YİöİT* . Günümüze dek ulaşan çivi yazılı belgelerde Hititler'in siyasal ve kültürel yaşamına ilişkin pek çok ayrıntılı bilgiyi bulma şansına sahibiz. Siyasal aktiviteler açısından baktığımızda, bu belgelerin kralları konu aldiğını, bunun yanında ve bununla bağlantılı olarak da kral ailesi üyelerinin ya da diğer üst düzey görevlilerin siyasal hareket ve ilişkilerinin de konu edildiğini görüyoruz. Bu hareket ve ilişkiler, kralın yanında devlet yönetiminde görevalma, kral tarafından yönetici olarak bir şehir ya da bağlı devletin başına getirilme, krala karşı isyan ederek yönetimi ele geçirme ya da buna teşebbüs,diplomatik ilişkilere dolaylı katkı gibi çok farklı yönleriyle ele alınabilir. Yayınlanmış tarihsel içerikli belgelerdeki kral ailesi üyelerine ilişkin kayıtları bu bakış açısından bir araya getirerek, Hititler'de kral ailesi üyelerinin siyasal etkinliğinin ne ölçüde olduğunu ortaya koymayı amaçlıyoruz. Ancak hemen şunu belirtmek gerekir ki, kral ailesinin çok etkin bir üyesi Tawananna ve bununla birlikte kraliçe başlıbaşına çalışmalara konu olduklarından i burada ele alınmayacaktır. Kral ailesi üyeleri arasında prensierin önemli' idari görevlerde bulunduklarını belgeler vasıtasıyla biliyoruz. Ancak prensler arasında "veliaht" olar~k atananların şüphesiz gelecekte elde edecekleri mevki, yani krallık, dolayısıyla daha önemli roller üstlendikleri ve daha etkili oldukları kabul edilmelidir. ' c Bir veliahtın belirtildiği ilk belgeler Anitta'ya ilişkin olanlardır. Daha Kültepe çağı'na ait olmak üzere Kültepe'de ele geçen bir belgede "Kral Pithana 2 ve merdiven büyüğü Anitta" ifadesi vardır • Yine aynı çağa ait olmak üzere Alişar'da ele geçen bir belgede bu defa "Büyük Kral Anitta, merdiven büyüğü 3 4 Peruwa" ifadesi yer alır • "Merdiven büyüğü" "veliaht" anlamındadır . Burada adı veliaht olarak geçenlerden Anitta'nın daha sonra krallık yaptığını biliyoruz. -
Generation Count in Hittite Chronology 73
071_080.qxd 13.02.2004 11:54 Seite 71 G E N E R A T I O N C O U N T I N H I T T I T E C H R O N O L O G Y Gernot Wilhelm* In studies on Ancient Near Eastern chronology of three participants who voted for the high Hittite history has often been considered a corner- chronology without hesitation (ÅSTRÖM 1989: 76). stone of a long chronology. In his grandiose but – At a colloquium organized by advocates of an as we now see – futile attempt to denounce the ultra-low chronology at Ghent, another hittitolo- Assyrian Kinglist as a historically unreliable source gist, B ECKMAN 2000: 25, deviated from the main- for the Assyrian history of the first half of the 2nd stream by declaring that from his viewpoint, “the millennium B.C., L ANDSBERGER 1954: 50 only Middle Chronology best fits the evidence, although briefly commented on Hittite history. 1 A. Goetze, the High Chronology would also be possible”. however, who at that time had already repeatedly Those hittitologists who adhered to the low defended a long chronology against the claims of chronology (which means, sack of Babylon by the followers of the short chronology (GOETZE Mursili I: 1531) had to solve the problem of 1951, 1952), filled the gap and supported Lands- squeezing all the kings attested between Mursili I berger’s plea for a long chronology, though not as and Suppiluliuma I into appr. 150 years, provided excessively long as Landsberger considered to be that there was agreement on Suppiluliuma’s likely. -
Karduniaš. Babylonia Under the Kassites
Karduniaš. Babylonia Under the Kassites The Proceedings of the Symposium Held in Munich 30 June to 2 July 2011 Tagungsbericht des Münchner Symposiums 30. Juni bis 2. Juli 2011 edited by Alexa Bartelmus and Katja Sternitzke Volume 1 Philological and Historical Studies Bereitgestellt von | Universitaetsbibliothek der LMU München Angemeldet | [email protected] Heruntergeladen am | 16.08.17 09:30 ISBN 978-1-5015-1163-9 e-ISBN (PDF) 978-1-5015-0356-6 e-ISBN (ePub) 978-1-5015-0348-1 ISSN 0502-7012 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication data A CIP catalog record for this book has been applied for at the Library of Congress. Bibliographic information published by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie; detailed bibliographic data are available in the Internet at http://dnb.dnb.de. © 2017 Walter de Gruyter Inc., Boston/Berlin Typesetting: fidus Publikations-Service GmbH, Nördlingen Printing and binding: Druckerei Hubert & Co. GmbH und Co. KG ♾ Printed on acid-free paper Printed in Germany www.degruyter.com Bereitgestellt von | Universitaetsbibliothek der LMU München Angemeldet | [email protected] Heruntergeladen am | 16.08.17 09:30 Jared L. Miller 3 Political Interactions between Kassite Babylonia and Assyria, Egypt and Ḫatti during the Amarna Age Introduction This paper aims first to provide a concise overview of the political interactions between Kassite Babylonia and the other Great Powers of the Amarna Age, i.e. Egypt, Ḫatti, Mittani and Assyria, a subject which could naturally fill a sizable monograph, or rather, a series of monographs. In an attempt to justify yet another general introduction to the era,1 this paper will also discuss two items to which some minor novel contribution can be made. -
ISSN 0989-5671 N°3 (Septembre) NOTES BRÈVES
ISSN 0989-5671 2016 N°3 (septembre) NOTES BRÈVES 55) Ergänzungen zu CUSAS 17, Nr. 104 — Auf dem „ancient kudurru“ CUSAS 17, Nr. 104 hat der Autor in NABU 2014 Nr. 38 den Namen PI.PI.EN als en-be6-be6 gelesen. Einer plausiblen Vermutung von Piotr Steinkeller (CUSAS 17, 217-18) zufolge handelt es sich bei dem Namensträger um einen König von Umma. Er wäre damit wahrscheinlich der erste Herrscher in Mesopotamien, der durch eine Inschrift aus seiner Regierungszeit belegt ist. Mit diesem Namen lässt sich auch nin-be6-be6 Banca Adab 13 Vs. i 3 (ED IIIb) vergleichen. Der Wechsel en : nin stützt die sumerische Interpretation des Namens und die Lesung be6 gegen die nur in semitischem Kontext gebrauchte Lesung wu. Gegen eine semitische Interpretation spricht auch be6-be6 UET II 171 B; 296, da die Wahrscheinlichkeit für einen semitischen Namen in diesen Texten unter einem Prozent liegt1) und der Name auch bei etwas anderer Lesung kein Merkmal hat, das ihn als typisch semitisch ausweisen würde. Eventuell zu vergleichen ist auch be6-be6-mud SF 63 iv 6 (P010654). Wenn so richtig gedeutet, handelt es sich um einen alten sumerischen Namen.²) Es gibt allerdings später einen ähnlichen semitischen oder semitisierten Namen bí-bí-um, z. B. IAS 531 ii 6. ki ki Der älteste Beleg für wu ist wohl à-wu-ur4 IAS 104 (Mitte) = Ebla à-wu-ur , cf. CUSAS 12, S. 197, 215. Diese Schreibung aus einer geographischen Liste in Tell Abū Ṣalābīḫ belegt die Lesung natürlich nicht für das Sumerische oder auch nur für den Süden, wo auch in semitischen Namen wa und wu nicht belegt sind, was im ersteren Fall nicht als Zufall gewertet werden kann (cf. -
An Overview of the Hittite Language
the Changes from PIE to Anatolian and from An OverviewAnatolian of the to Hittite Hittite, Language, and a Brief History of the Hittite People A.J. Gregoritsch IV The Hittite Language ●Hittite, probably originally called nešili after the city of Neša (sometimes also called Aniša and originally named Kaneš), is an extinct Indo- European language of the Anatolian branch. ●It was spoken by an Indo-European people who at one time controlled much of what is now turkey and Syria. Notable Features of the Language ●Word order is typically SOV. ●It has split ergative alignment. ●Hittite, like PIE, had postpositions. ●Modifiers, including subordinate clauses, typically precede what they modify. ●Sentences and clauses usually begin with a chain of fixed-order clitics. From PIE to Common Anatolian ●Stops: ● Voiced aspirated stops lost their aspiration and merged with the plain voiced stops. – *bh, *b > *b – *dh, *d > *d – *gh, *g > *g – *ǵh, *ǵ > *ǵ – *gwh, *gw > *gw ● This would seem to be a change from the original PIE distinction between voiceless, voiced and voiced aspirated to a new From PIE to Common Anatolian ●Laryngeals: ● Scholars generally agree that *h2 was preserved as a consonant, and it is probable that *h3 was also preserved, though this is disputed. The two also seem to have merged into a single consonant, though there is some small evidence of a possible conditional split w of *h2 into *H and *H . – *h2, *h3 > *H w – also possibly: *h2w, *h2u > *H ● The outcome of *h1 appears to be the same as in the other branches. From PIE to Common -
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PHYSICAL AND METAPHYSICAL ZONES OF TRANSITION COMPARATIVE THEMES IN HITTITE AND GREEK KARST LANDSCAPES IN THE LATE BRONZE AND EARLY IRON AGES by ANNE PERSIDA HAY Submitted in accordance with the requirements for the degree of MASTER OF ARTS in the subject of ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN STUDIES at the UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AFRICA SUPERVISOR: PROFESSOR M DE MARRE JANUARY 2021 2 DECLARATION Anne Persida Hay Student number: 35984597 Degree: Master of Arts in the subject of Ancient Near Eastern Studies I declare that Physical and Metaphysical Zones of Transition: comparative themes in Hittite and Greek karst landscapes in the Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages is my own work. All the sources that I have used or quoted have been indicated and acknowledged by means of complete references, and this work has not been submitted before for any other degree at any other institution. I further declare that I submitted the dissertation to originality checking software and that it falls within the accepted requirements for originality. ................................ Anne Persida Hay Dated 25th January 2021 © University of South Africa 2021 3 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The hardest part of writing this dissertation was forcing myself to stop. There is so much more to be explored. My journey above and below the earth has been fascinating and would not have been possible without a bursary from the College of Human Sciences at the University of South Africa (Unisa), for which I am immensely grateful. I am indebted to the following people: My supervisor, Professor Martine de Marre, Professor of Ancient History, Department of Biblical and Ancient Studies, gave me the freedom to follow karst hydrology and ancient imagination wherever I thought it flowed, offering unfamiliar texts that would assist my thinking.