Kizzuwatna. History of Cilicia in the Middle and Late Bronze Age (ca. 2000-1200 BC)
Kizzuwatna. History of Cilicia in the Middle and Late Bronze Age (ca. 2000-1200 BC)

Author: Andrea Trameri

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2024-10-21

Total Pages: 638

ISBN-13: 9004704310

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In Kizzuwatna, Andrea Trameri presents a history of the kingdom of Kizzuwatna, located in Cilicia (southern Anatolia), from its origins to the fall of the Hittite Empire. Encompassing both philological and archaeological evidence in the discussion, this book is the first comprehensive historical study of interdisciplinary scope dedicated to Kizzuwatna and the region of Cilicia in the second millennium BC. The book presents and re-analyses a diverse array of sources and data, providing an updated overview of various topics of interest beyond political history – including historical geography, culture and religion, population and language. Some new findings and proposals further contribute to an improved understanding of the history of the Hittite kingdom and other neighboring regions in the Middle and Late Bronze Age (ca. 2000-1200 BC).

Sagalassos V
Sagalassos V

Author: Marc Waelkens

Publisher: Leuven University Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 896

ISBN-13: 9789058670793

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In two volumes.

The Making of Empire in Bronze Age Anatolia
The Making of Empire in Bronze Age Anatolia

Author: Claudia Glatz

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-11-12

Total Pages: 387

ISBN-13: 1108491103

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This book reconsiders the concept of empire and examines the processes of imperial making and undoing in Hittite Anatolia (c. 1600-1180 BCE).

Understanding Collapse
Understanding Collapse

Author: Guy D. Middleton

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017-06-26

Total Pages: 463

ISBN-13: 110715149X

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In this lively survey, Guy D. Middleton critically examines our ideas about collapse - how we explain it and how we have constructed potentially misleading myths around collapses - showing how and why collapse of societies was a much more complex phenomenon than is often admitted.

From Hittite to Homer
From Hittite to Homer

Author: Mary R. Bachvarova

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016-03-10

Total Pages: 691

ISBN-13: 0521509793

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This book takes a bold new approach to the prehistory of Homeric epic, arguing for a fresh understanding of how Near Eastern influence worked.

Overturning Certainties in Near Eastern Archaeology
Overturning Certainties in Near Eastern Archaeology

Author: Çiğdem Maner

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2017-09-18

Total Pages: 717

ISBN-13: 9004353577

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This volume, Overturning Certainties in Near Eastern Archaeology, is a festschrift dedicated to Professor K. Aslıhan Yener in honor of over four decades of exemplary research, teaching, fieldwork, and publication. The thirty-five chapters presented by her colleagues includes a broad, interdisciplinary range of studies in archaeology, archaeometry, art history, and epigraphy of the Ancient Near East, especially reflecting Prof Yener’s interests in metallurgy, small finds, trade, Anatolia, and the site of Tell Atchana/Alalakh. "The richness of this volume inevitably emerges from those contributions on exchange and technology using philology and/or archaeology." - David A. Warburton, Institute for the History of Ancient Civilizations, Northeast Normal University, in: Bibliotheca Orientalis 76,1-2 (2019)

The Hittites and Their Contemporaries in Asia Minor
The Hittites and Their Contemporaries in Asia Minor

Author: James G. Macqueen

Publisher: Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press

Published: 1975

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 9780891585206

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The Hittites were an Indo-European-speaking people who established a kingdom in Anatolia (modern Turkey) almost 4,000 years ago. They rose to become one of the great powers of the ancient Middle Eastern world by conquering Babylon - and were destroyed in the wake of the movements of the enigmatic Sea Peoples around 1180 BC. Macqueen's study investigates such intriguing topics as the origins of the Hittites, the sources of the metals which were so vital to their success, and their relations with their contemporaries in the Aegean world, the Trojans and the Mycenaean Greeks.

Iron Age Hieroglyphic Luwian Inscriptions
Iron Age Hieroglyphic Luwian Inscriptions

Author: Annick Payne

Publisher: Society of Biblical Lit

Published: 2012-09-17

Total Pages: 137

ISBN-13: 1589836588

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Hieroglyphic Luwian belongs to the Anatolian group of ancient languages and was inscribed primarily on stone, using an indigenous Anatolian pictorial writing system. These Hieroglyphic Luwian inscriptions were written over a period of centuries in the region of Anatolia and northern Syria. Their authors were primarily the rulers of the so-called Neo-Hittite states, contemporaries and neighbors of early Israel. This volume collects some of the most important and representative of the inscriptions in transliteration and translation, organized by genre. Each text is accompanied by relevant information on provenance, dating, and other points of interest that will engage specialist and nonspecialist alike.

Script and Society
Script and Society

Author: Philip J. Boyes

Publisher: Oxbow Books

Published: 2021-03-15

Total Pages: 497

ISBN-13: 1789255848

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By the 13th century BC, the Syrian city of Ugarit hosted an extremely diverse range of writing practices. As well as two main scripts – alphabetic and logographic cuneiform - the site has also produced inscriptions in a wide range of scripts and languages, including Hurrian, Sumerian, Hittite, Egyptian hieroglyphs, Luwian hieroglyphs and Cypro-Minoan. This variety in script and language is accompanied by writing practices that blend influences from Mesopotamian, Anatolian and Levantine traditions together with what seem to be distinctive local innovations. Script and Society: The Social Context of Writing Practices in Late Bronze Age Ugarit explores the social and cultural context of these complex writing traditions from the perspective of writing as a social practice. It combines archaeology, epigraphy, history and anthropology to present a highly interdisciplinary exploration of social questions relating to writing at the site, including matters of gender, ethnicity, status and other forms of identity, the relationship between writing and place, and the complex relationships between inscribed and uninscribed objects. This forms a case- study for a wider discussion of interdisciplinary approaches to the study of writing practices in the ancient world.