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Some Geographical and Political Aspects of Mursilis' Arzawan Campaign1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

T. R. Bryce
T. R. Bryce
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University of Queensland
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At the beginning of his reign, the Hittite king Mursilis II was confronted with widespread unrest amongst the territories subject to Hittite control. One of the early challenges to his authority came from Arzawa whose king Ukha-zitis defied an order to hand over rebels from Attarimma, Huwarsanassa, and Suruta who had sought refuge in his country. Mursilis answered this challenge by conducting in person a two-season military campaign against Arzawa, the details of which are recorded in the Annals for his third and fourth years. His personal intervention indicates the importance which he attached to this particular area, and there can be little doubt that Arzawa occupied a key position amongst Hittite holdings in the south west of Asia Minor in the latter half of the second millennium B.C.

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Anatolian Studies , Volume 24 , December 1974 , pp. 103 - 116
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Copyright © The British Institute at Ankara 1974

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37 See, e.g. Macqueen, op. cit., 169. The question of Lukka's and Millawanda's locations is still a matter of some dispute. However, convincing arguments have been put forward for identifying Millawanda with Miletus (see G.G. 80-81, and cf. Albright, , AJA. 54 (1950), 168CrossRefGoogle Scholar, Huxley, , Achaeans and Hittites, 11 ff.Google Scholar, and Stubbings, , CAH. II, new ed., fasc. 26 (1964), 22Google Scholar). If this proposal is correct, it is very likely that places like Attarimma and Iyalanda (which appear in the Tawagalawas document, KUB. XIV, 3Google Scholar, and were almost certainly Lukka settlements) should be located in Caria (note G.G.'s very plausible identification of Iyalanda with Alinda, 78). On the assumption that Sallapa lay to the east or south of the Salt Lake, this would mean that Tawagalawas' envoy travelled several hundred miles before reaching the king at Sallapa (KUB. XIV, 3, I, 6 ff.Google Scholar). However the distance involved is not inconceivably greater than would be the case with G.G.'s and Macqueen's locations for Sallapa.

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41 A.M., 47.

42 e.g. by G.G., 76–7, and Macqueen op. cit., 177.

43 Chiefly because of its association with Kaneš. See G.G. 22-3. Cornelius, , RHA. 62, 3Google Scholar, is more tentative in accepting the identification. Cf. Laroche, RHA. 69 (1961), 67, no. 45Google Scholar.

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47 There is general agreement on this by Goetze, G.G., and Cornelius, as Houwink ten Cate points out (op. cit., 194).

48 69-72. See also Garstang, , “The Hulaya River Land and Daddassas”, JNES. 3 (1944)Google Scholar. Cf. Cornelius, , Orientalia 27, 390Google Scholar, map, and Houwink ten Cate, op. cit., 194 n. 4.

49 Laroche's discovery was briefly reported in “The Times”, 25/9/73, 7Google Scholar.

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51 See above n. 46 and Mursilis' treaty with Kupanta-Inaras § 9 (Friedrich, , Verträge I (1926)Google Scholar, G.G. 90).

52 Cf. Forrer, , Forschungen I/1, 17, and G.G. 91Google Scholar.

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55 G.G. 90 § 10.

56 Ibid.

57 KBo. 1, 24Google Scholar. See G.G. 90 and n. 4 for references.

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61 For the difficulties of the route between the Pamphylian plain and the mouth of the Calcycadnos River, see D. Magie, op. cit., 266-7, and 1144 n. 24. Note, however, that in Roman times at least there was a coastal route which connected Pamphylia with eastern Cilicia (Magie, 270).

62 One might note in passing that Houwink ten Cate has shown that Cilicia Aspera was one of two major Luwian centres on the southern Asia Minor coast in the first millennium B.C. This of course does not mean that it was a major Arzawan centre in the second millennium B.C. However, in his account of various Luwian onomastic elements, Houwink ten Cate discusses the element Kuṷa which occurs in a few names in Hittite texts and which calls to mind Kuwaliya (op. cit., 152). He points out that in the town of Sinekkalessi the name Μιρασητας (Mira-zita/i) appears three times and κουαλις (Kuṷa+li) many times. The occurrence of these two names together leads him to make the suggestion – though very tentatively – that this area may have been the centre of the kingdom of Mira-Kuwaliya – i.e. on the boundary between Pamphylia and Cilicia Aspera (op. cit., 194).

63 See A.M. 51.

64 Published by Knudtzon, J. A., Die Zwei Arzawabriefe, 1902Google Scholar. See also Meyer, E., Geschichte des Altertums, I. 2, 474Google Scholar, and Barnett, R. D., AS. 3 (1953), 64 n. 5Google Scholar.

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66 See, e.g., G.G. 93 ff., Macqueen, op. cit., 176 (map), and Goetze, Kleinasien,2 map.

67 The inference that the Astarpa formed the boundary of Arzawa as well as that of Mira-Kuwaliya need not automatically follow from Mursilis' text, as Forrer once asserted on the grounds that immediately after defeating Piyama-Inaras, Mursilis apparently crossed over into Arzawan territory (Forschungen I/1, 18Google Scholar. Cf. Macqueen, op. cit., 169.). The text may give a somewhat misleading impression here, and one should note the similar expressions used by Mursilis in describing his advance first to the Sehiriya River, and then to Aura, (A.M. 44 and 48Google Scholar). Note in particular obv. II 9-11, 48 … “and I joined up with him in Sallapa. Then I marched into the Land of Arzawa, and when I reached Aura …” There is of course no suggestion that the Sehiriya River or Aura lay in Arzawan territory.

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69 The Apasas-Ephesus equation is strongly supported by Cornelius, who stresses the possible linguistic relationship between Apaasa, and Ephesus, (Orientalia 27, 395Google Scholar n. 3 and n.4), infers from the early cult of Artemis that Ephesus was an important pre-Greek state, and suggests that Parijana which is named amongst the Assuwan states (see KUB. XXIII, 11 and 12Google Scholar. Cf. Bossert, H. Th., Asia, 24Google Scholar, Forrer, , Klio XXX, 171Google Scholar) is to be equated with Priene. Note also Hanfmann's, G. M. A. article “A Hittite Priest from Ephesus”, AJA. 66 (1962), 1–4CrossRefGoogle Scholar. Hanfmann states (p. 4): “the appearance at Ephesus of a work such as the bronze group published here would be more readily explained if Bronze Age Ephesus was a royal residence and an important centre of a major kingdom”. It is an interesting speculation, but the isolated discovery referred to certainly does not allow one to draw any confident conclusions as to the significance of the site in the Late Bronze Age period, or its possible identification with Apasas.

70 E.g. Huxley, , Achaeans and Hittites, 33Google Scholar.

71 Extract from a personal letter.

72 Garstang, , Belleten V, 43Google Scholar, rejected this possibility on the grounds that the text of Mursilis' Annals implies that Ukha-zitis fled before the Hittites to a neighbouring island. There is no such island in the vicinity of Attaleia/Antalya, while on the other hand, “a suitable island is found opposite Habesos in Castelorizo (Meis)”. However, the text is far from conclusive in this respect.

73 Magie, op. cit., 266 refers to a “difficult route which led up from Side across the mountains to Lake Beyşehir” and then to Iconium (see also 1140 n. 18). One might compare with this route the modern Turkish highway which connects Konya with the Pamphylian plain by way of Beyşehir.

74 G.G. 89, §§ 2-3 of Mursilis' treaty with Kupanta-Inaras.

75 A.M. 73.

76 A.M. 51.

77 A.M. 53-7.

78 A.M. 59. See also the references to Arinnanda, and Puranda, in Laroche RHA. 69 (1961), 64 no. 27 and 69 no. 58Google Scholar.

79 A.M. 61.

80 Prior to Mursilis' expedition, Mashuiluwas, who represented Hittite interests, could count on only limited support from his own people (A.M. 39), and even after the Hittite campaign had been brought to a successful conclusion, Mursilis still had considerable reservations about the loyalty of the people of Mira (A.M. 75).

81 A.M. 63-5.

82 Friedrich, Verträge II, 5Google Scholar.

83 E.g. by Sidney Smith in a letter to “The Times” (referred to by G.G. 108) and Goetze (see Kleinasien,2 map). Cf. Huxley, , Achaeans and Hittites, 33Google Scholar, and Houwink ten Cate, The Luwian Population Groups etc., 196Google Scholar, and contrast Cornelius, , Orientalia 27, 396Google Scholar. See also Eilers, W., OLZ (1935), 201–13Google Scholar, Sommer, , Die Ahhiyavā-Urkunden, Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Munich (1932), 157Google Scholar, and Albright, , AJA. 54, 168Google Scholar. Huxley (p. 20) draws attention to the fact that the Persians probably called Caria Krk, and refers to Herzfeld, E., Altpersische Inschriften, Berlin (1938) No. 14 p. 27 line 28Google Scholar.

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85 Cf. Magie, op. cit., 39–40, who suggests that the Maeander route was probably later in origin than the so-called Persian “Royal Road” (the Hermus route).

86 From the western end of the Pamphylian plain, there was an important route of communication with the interior, perhaps leading north from the vicinity of Attaleia (see De Planhol, X., De la Plaine Pamphylienne aux Lacs Pisidiens, Paris (1958), 23–4Google Scholar). Cf. the modern Turkish highway which links Antaly a with Isparta, Burdur, etc. As described by Magie (p. 265), the route in Roman times “climbed the steep ascent to the mountains of Milyas past the entrance to the valley in which lay Termessus, and over a pass 3,000 feet above sea level into the plain of Isinda, near the headwaters of the Istanos Çay. From here it lay over the mountains to the plain north of Cibyra and thence to Laodiceia on the southern Highway. This was presumably the route used by the army of Mithradates when it attacked Termessus and perhaps invaded Pamphylia”. There is no reason to doubt that a similar route was used in the second millennium B.C. – a route providing direct contact between the Pamphylian plain and the western end of the Maeander valley.

87 A.M. 75.

88 G.G. 94.

89 As indicated by § 9 of Mursilis' treaty with Kupanta-Inaras (G.G. 90).

90 A.M. 75 (Sec. 50).

91 Macqueen (op. cit., 169) claims that the parting of the ways occurred at Sallapa since there are no names after Sallapa which are common to the lists of places mentioned in the two “western” campaigns undertaken by the Hittites. However, it is not the Hittite king's intention to give an exhaustive list of the places through which he passed. He mentions only those places where something of significance occurred which had a direct bearing on the campaign in question. It is quite possible that he passed through Aura on his way to Millawanda without mentioning this fact. However he does refer to Aura in his march to Arzawa, for it was at Aura that he received word of Piyama-Inaras' preparations to meet him at Walma (A.M. 49).

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