The Ahhiyawa Texts

Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-90-04-21971-7
Verlag: Brill Academic Publishers

Buch, Englisch, Band 28, 302 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: SBL - Writings from the Ancient World

Twenty-six texts found in the Hittite capital of Hattusa dating from the fifteenth–thirteenth centuries B.C.E. contain references to a land known as “Ahhiyawa,” which most scholars now identify with the Late Bronze Age Mycenaean world. The subject of continuing study and controversy since they were first published in 1924, the letters are still at the center of Mycenaean-Hittite studies and are now considered in studies and courses concerned with Troy, the Trojan War, and the role of both Mycenaeans and Hittites in that possible conflict. This volume offers, for the first time in a single source, English translations of all twenty-six Ahhiyawa texts and a commentary and brief exposition on each text’s historical implications. The volume also includes an introductory essay to the whole Ahhiyawa “problem” as well as a longer essay on Mycenaean-Hittite interconnections and the current state of the discipline.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Beckman, Gary

Bryce, Trevor

Cline, Eric

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Übersetzung, Editionstechnik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Vor- und Frühgeschichte, prähistorische Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Abbreviations
Explanation of Signs
List of Illustrations
Preface
Introduction: The Ahhiyawa Problem

Texts
AhT 1A–1B (CTH 61). Annals of Mursili II, Years 3–4
AhT 1A (CTH 61.I). Ten-Year Annals
AhT 1B (CTH 61.II). Extensive Annals
AhT 2 (CTH 105). Treaty between Tudhaliya IV of Hatti and Shaushgamuwa, king of Amurru
AhT 3 (CTH 147). Indictment of Madduwatta
AhT 4 (CTH 181). Letter from a king of Hatti (probably Hattusili III) to a king of Ahhiyawa—the “Tawagalawa Letter”
AhT 5 (CTH 182). Letter from a king of Hatti (probably Tudhaliya IV) to a western Anatolian ruler (Tarkasnawa, king of Mira?)—the “Milawata Letter”
AhT 6 (CTH 183). Letter from a king of Ahhiyawa to a king of Hatti (probably Muwattalli II)
AhT 7 (CTH 191). Letter from Manapa-Tarhunta of the Seha River Land to a king of Hatti (probably Muwattalli II)
AhT 8 (CTH 209.12). Letter from a Hittite official to a king of Hatti (Hattusili III?)
AhT 9 (CTH 209.16). Letter from a king of Hatti(?) (perhaps Mursili II or Hattusili III) to a king of Ahhiyawa(?)
AhT 10 (CTH 209.17). Letter
AhT 11 (CTH 211.4). Offenses of the Seha River Land (royal edict of Tudhaliya IV?)
AhT 12 (CTH 214.12.A). Prayer of Mursili II/Muwattalli II/Urhi-Teshshup(?)
AhT 13 (CTH 214.12.B). Memorandum(?)
AhT 14 (CTH 214.12.C). Extract from a letter(?) from a king of Hatti(?) (Tudhaliya IV?) concerning Urhi-Teshshup
AhT 15 (CTH 214.12.D). Letter from a king of Hatti (Hattusili III?) to another Great King
AhT 16 (CTH 214.12.E). Fragment
AhT 17 (CTH 214.12.F). Fragment
AhT 18 (CTH 214.16). “Boundary” list(?). Reign of Hattusili III or Tudhaliya IV(?)
AhT 19 (CTH 243.6). Inventory
AhT 20 (CTH 570.1). Oracle report
AhT 21 (CTH 570.2). Oracle report
AhT 22 (CTH 571.2). Oracle report
AhT 23 (CTH 572.1). Oracle report
AhT 24 (CTH 572.2). Oracle report
AhT 25 (CTH 581*). Letter
AhT 26 (CTH 590). Votive prayer of Puduhepa(?) (wife of Hattusili III)
AhT 27A–27B. Letters from the Hittite court to Ammurapi of Ugarit
AhT 27A. Letter from Suppiluliuma II to Ammurapi, king of Ugarit
AhT 27B. Letter from Penti-Sharruma, a Hittite official, to Ammurapi, king of Ugarit
AhT 28. Inscription of Warika, king of (Ah)hiyawa

Epilogue: Mycenaean–Hittite Interconnections in the Late Bronze Age Revisited

Sources
Bibliography
Indices

Über Autor(innen)

Cline, Eric
Eric H. Cline is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, and Director of the GWU Capitol Archaeological Institute, at The George Washington University. Recently he has written Biblical Archaeology: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press), co-authored Ancient Empires: From Mesopotamia to the Rise of Islam (Cambridge University Press), and edited Oxford Handbook of the Bronze Age Aegean (Oxford University Press).

Bryce, Trevor
Trevor R. Bryce is Professor Emeritus and Honorary Research Consultant, School of History, Philosophy, Religion, and Classics, at the University of Queensland. His books include The Kingdom of the Hittites and Life and Society in the Hittite World (both from Oxford University Press) and Hittite Warrior (Osprey).

Beckman, Gary
Gary M. Beckman is Professor of Hittite and Mesopotamian Studies at the University of Michigan. He is the author of numerous books, including Hittite Diplomatic Texts (Society of Biblical Literature), the co-author of The Epic of Gilgamesh (Norton), and the co-editor of Text, Artifact, and Image: Revealing Ancient Israelite Religion (Brown Judaic Studies).

Gary M. Beckman is Professor of Hittite and Mesopotamian Studies at the University of Michigan. He is the author of numerous books, including Hittite Diplomatic Texts (Society of Biblical Literature), the co-author of The Epic of Gilgamesh (Norton), and the co-editor of Text, Artifact, and Image: Revealing Ancient Israelite Religion (Brown Judaic Studies).

Trevor R. Bryce is Professor Emeritus and Honorary Research Consultant, School of History, Philosophy, Religion, and Classics, at the University of Queensland. His books include The Kingdom of the Hittites and Life and Society in the Hittite World (both from Oxford University Press) and Hittite Warrior (Osprey).

Eric H. Cline is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, and Director of the GWU Capitol Archaeological Institute, at The George Washington University. Recently he has written Biblical Archaeology: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press), co-authored Ancient Empires: From Mesopotamia to the Rise of Islam (Cambridge University Press), and edited Oxford Handbook of the Bronze Age Aegean (Oxford University Press).