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By Trevor Bryce

Within the early twelfth century, the past due Bronze Age Hittite empire collapsed in the course of a sequence of upheavals which swept the Greek and close to japanese worlds. within the next Iron Age, various towns and states emerged in south-eastern Anatolia and northerly Syria, that are normally recognized at the present time because the "Neo-Hittite kingdoms." Bryce's quantity supplies an account of the army and political heritage of those kingdoms, relocating past the Neo-Hittites themselves to the wider close to jap global and the states which ruled it throughout the Iron Age.

Divided into 3 sections, The global of Neo-Hittite Kingdoms appears to be like on the final a long time of the empire and the good points of those kingdoms and their next therapy lower than their Anatolian successors. via a more in-depth examine the person Neo-Hittite kingdoms and their rulers and a comparability with the modern Aramaean states and the opposite kingdoms of the age--notably the Neo-Assyrian empire --it concludes with a ancient synthesis of the Neo-Hittites whilst the final country was once absorbed into the Assyrian provincial administration.

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26 The relief depicts a male human figure wearing a tall peaked cap and armed with bow, spear, and sword. The subject of the weathered inscription is identified as Tarkasnawa, king of the land of Mira. Mira was one of the western Anatolian kingdoms called the Arzawa lands which became vassal states of the Hittite empire, probably in the late 14th century. Tarkasnawa was almost certainly ruler of Mira in the period the Hittite throne was occupied by Tudhaliya IV. 27 Tarkasnawa names his father and grandfather in his inscription, both of whom had been kings of Mira.

But let us for a moment return to the Südburg inscription. I have taken the line, following van den Hout, that the hieroglyphic inscriptions, which were highly propagandistic and intended for public display, were addressed primarily to a Luwian-speaking audience; this reflects the likelihood that by the last century of the empire, Luwian speakers made up the bulk of the population of Hittite Anatolia. Nevertheless, we should bear in mind that the Südburg inscription, which extols the military achievements of the last known Hittite king and is one of the most important 30 The End of an Era of the hieroglyphic texts, was inscribed on the walls of a chamber in a cult complex—and was therefore not on public display.

In this respect, adoption of the script would in itself have served a propagandistic purpose, irrespective of the actual content of the inscriptions. And a number of the pictorial signs making up the script must have been instantly recognizable and understood, even by illiterate viewers. This may well have a bearing on the use of the royal digraphic seals. The inscription in the seal’s outer ring or rings, which provided in cuneiform a king’s name, titles, and genealogy, may not have been intelligible to all who inspected its impression on a document.

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