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Chapter 2 - Writing and Literacy among the Anatolians in the Old Assyrian Period

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 December 2020

Theo van den Hout
Theo van den Hout
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University of Chicago
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Although Assyrian merchants lived in Central Anatolia for over two centuries and used writing extensively for their business local Anatolians only became interested in the use of script toward the end of the Old Assyrian Period. This coincided with the emergence of the first unified Anatolian kingdom under Anitta. It is argued that the so-called Anitta Text, known only from later copies in Hittite, could only have been written in Assyrian in Old Assyrian cuneiform.

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Literacyilliteracyancient AnatoliaOld Assyrian periodKaneshAnittaAnitta TextSyrian cuneiform
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A History of Hittite Literacy
Writing and Reading in Late Bronze-Age Anatolia (1650–1200 BC)
 , pp. 24 - 37
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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