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- A History of Hittite Literacy
- A History of Hittite Literacy
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Map
- Timeline and Hittite Kings
- Sigla and Abbreviations
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Chapter 2 Writing and Literacy among the Anatolians in the Old Assyrian Period
- Chapter 3 From Kanesh to Hattusa
- Chapter 4 First Writing in Hattusa
- Chapter 5 Literacy and Literature in the Old Kingdom until 1500 BC
- Chapter 6 The Emergence of Writing in Hittite
- Chapter 7 A Second Script
- Chapter 8 The New Kingdom Cuneiform Corpus
- Chapter 9 The New Kingdom Hieroglyphic Corpus
- Chapter 10 The Wooden Writing Boards
- Chapter 11 The Seal Impressions of the Westbau and Building D, and the Wooden Tablets
- Chapter 12 In the Hittite Chancellery and Tablet Collections
- Chapter 13 Scribes and Scholars
- Chapter 14 Excursus
- Chapter 15 The End and Looking Back
- Bibliography
- Index Locorum
- General Index
Chapter 15 - The End and Looking Back
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 December 2020
- A History of Hittite Literacy
- A History of Hittite Literacy
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Map
- Timeline and Hittite Kings
- Sigla and Abbreviations
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Chapter 2 Writing and Literacy among the Anatolians in the Old Assyrian Period
- Chapter 3 From Kanesh to Hattusa
- Chapter 4 First Writing in Hattusa
- Chapter 5 Literacy and Literature in the Old Kingdom until 1500 BC
- Chapter 6 The Emergence of Writing in Hittite
- Chapter 7 A Second Script
- Chapter 8 The New Kingdom Cuneiform Corpus
- Chapter 9 The New Kingdom Hieroglyphic Corpus
- Chapter 10 The Wooden Writing Boards
- Chapter 11 The Seal Impressions of the Westbau and Building D, and the Wooden Tablets
- Chapter 12 In the Hittite Chancellery and Tablet Collections
- Chapter 13 Scribes and Scholars
- Chapter 14 Excursus
- Chapter 15 The End and Looking Back
- Bibliography
- Index Locorum
- General Index
Summary
How the Hittite kingdom broke up still eludes us. Current archaeological thinking envisions a deliberate abandonment of the capital Hattusa by its elite. Evidence of migrations pushing eastwards from the west, recent interpretations of the Sea People’s movements in a similar direction, and the emergence of three Great Kings in Hittite fashion after 1200 in inscriptions from the eastern Konya plain (Kızıldağ, Karadağ), at KarahÖyÜk near Elbistan, and several inscriptions from the Malatya area further east may hint at where they went. Did they try to settle down and continue at Tarhuntassa, Karkamish, or elsewhere in that region? Using the fall of Ugarit around 1190 or, as some claim, the end of Emar in the late 1180s as termini post quos for the end of the kingdom one might argue for an awareness of a still existing Hittite kingdom into the early twelfth century bc but we do not know whether that was at Hattusa or already elsewhere.
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- A History of Hittite LiteracyWriting and Reading in Late Bronze-Age Anatolia (1650–1200 BC), pp. 375 - 380Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021