This volume originates from a research project, which was funded within the PRIN program Writing Uses: Transmission of Knowledge, Administrative Practices and Political Control in Anatolian and Syro-Anatolian Polities in the 2nd and 1st Millennium BCE. The project involved ‘research units’ from different Italian universities (Torino, Pavia, Bologna, Firenze, Napoli - Suor Orsola Benincasa). The papers presented here, seek to fill some gaps in our knowledge of the Hittite Empire and its epigones, and offer an updated picture of some aspects of the Hittite and post-Hittite administration in Anatolia and Syria through the analysis and interpretation of epigraphic and archaeological evidence.
University of Pavia, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0003-3838-2078
University of Florence, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0001-9741-5963
Stefano de Martino
The Edict Issued by the Hittite King Ḫattušili III Concerning the Priesthood of the Goddess Ištar/Šaušgapp.9-23
Maria Elena Balza
The King Tutḫaliya IV, the Eflatunpınar Monument, and the River of the Watery Abysspp.37-51
Massimiliano Marazzi
New ‘Excavations’ in the Pergamon-Museum and in the Gipsformerei of Berlin and New Elements for the Study of the Decorative Programme of Kammer B in Yazılıkayapp.53-76
Francesco Giuseppe Barsacchi
The Administration of Sacred Time in Hittite Anatoliapp.77-91
Clelia Mora, Maria Elena Balza, Marco De Pietri
The Court and Administration of Karkemish in the Late Bronze Agepp.93-126
Hasan Peker
Philological Remarks on the Sealings from Empire Period of Karkemishpp.127-159
Marina Pucci
Storage and Food Control in the ‘Amuq from the Late Bronze to the Iron Age: The Archaeological Evidencepp.161-176
Lorenzo d'Alfonso, Nathan Lovejoy
Rulership and the Gods: The Role of Cultic Institutions in the Late Bronze to Iron Age Transition in Anatolia and Northern Syriapp.177-214
Titolo del libro
Administrative Practices and Political Control in Anatolian and Syro-Anatolian Polities in the 2nd and 1st Millennium BCE
Curatori
Clelia Mora, Giulia Torri
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Numero di pagine
216
Anno di pubblicazione
2023
Copyright
© 2023 Author(s)
Licenza d'uso
Licenza dei metadati
Editore
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0042-4
ISBN Print
979-12-215-0041-7
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-0042-4
Collana
Studia Asiana
ISSN della collana
1974-7837
e-ISSN della collana
2612-808X