The calm before the storm : selected writings of Itamar Singer on the late Bronze Age in Anatolia and the Levant
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The calm before the storm : selected writings of Itamar Singer on the late Bronze Age in Anatolia and the Levant
(Writings from the ancient world supplements, no. 1)
Brill, 2012, c2011
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Description
In a career that so far has spanned nearly four decades, more than thirty of them as Professor of Hittitology in the Department of Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Cultures at Tel Aviv University, Itamar Singer has had a profound impact on the field of ancient Near Eastern studies, and Hittite studies in particular. His wide-ranging contributions have nowhere been more deeply felt than in the historical reconstruction of the international affairs of the thirteenth century b.c.e.-the end of the Bronze Age in the eastern Mediterranean. The essays collected in this volume are a testament to the impact of his research on understanding Hatti's diplomatic relations with the other great powers in this critical period of human history and on elucidating the complex dynamics that led to the disintegration of the Hittite Empire.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Hatti and Its Neighbors
Hittite Domination in Syria
Syria after the Battle of Qadesh
Ugarit
A Political History of Ugarit
Takuhlinu and Haya: Two Governors in the Ugarit Letter from Tel Aphek
Ships Bound for Lukka: A New Interpretation of the Companion
Letters RS 94.2530 and RS 94.2523
Amurru
A Concise History of Amurru
The `Land of Amurru' and the `Lands of Amurru' in the Sausgamuwa Treaty
Hittite Cultural Influence in the Kingdom of Amurru
The Title "Great Princess" in the Hittite Empire
The Treaties between Hatti and Amurru
Mahhaza, King of Amurru
Emar
A New Hittite Letter from Emar
Borrowing Seals at Emar
A Late Synchronism between Ugarit and Emar (with Y. Cohen)
Karkamis
The Treaties between Karkamis and Hatti
The Great Scribe Taki-Sarruma
A Lost Seal of Talmi-Tesub
Hatti and Mesopotamia
The Battle of Nihriya and the End of the Hittite Empire
A Hittite-Assyrian Diplomatic Exchange in the Late-Thirteenth Century b.c.e.
KBo 28.61-64 and the Struggle over the Throne of Babylon at the Turn of the Thirteenth Century b.c.e.
Hatti and the West
Western Anatolia in the Thirteenth Century B.C. according to the Hittite Sources
Purple-Dyers in Lazpa
Ahhiyawans Bearing Gifts
Hatti and Egypt
The Kurustama Treaty Revisited
The Urhi-Tesub Affair in the Hittite-Egyptian Correspondence
Hittite Gods in Egyptian Attire: A Case Study in Cultural Transmission
Hatti and Canaan
The Hittites and the Bible Revisited
A Hittite Hieroglyphic Seal Impression from Tel Aphek
Megiddo Mentioned in a Letter from Bogazkoey
A Hittite Seal from Megiddo
A Hittite Signet Ring from Tel Nami
Two Hittite Ring Seals from Southern Canaan
From Zenith to Nadir: The Last Century of the Hittite Kingdom
The Failed Reforms of Akhenaten and Muwatalli
From Hattusa to Tarhuntassa: Some Thoughts on Muwatalli's Reign
The Toponyms Tiwa and Tawa
The Fate of Hattusa during the Period of Tarhuntassa's Supremacy
Danuhepa and Kurunta
Great Kings of Tarhuntassa
Dating the End of the Hittite Empire
New Evidence on the End of the Hittite Empire
In Hattusa the Royal House Declined
On Luwians and Hittites
Epilogue
Between Scepticism and Credulity: In Defence of Hittite Historiography
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