CLCV 2906 Lecture 8: ANE topic 8 notes
30 Nov 2016
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Topic 8: the western states of the late bronze age. So many places provide independent testimony of their histories at the same time: many also give insight of relations with neighbours. Virtually no text from for the mitanni from archives of their own. Between tigris and euphrates in north zone. C. 400 km east >< west at greatest width. Controlled alalakh (antioch) on orontes and so had mediterraneant port: control all the way to source of orontes south of qadesh. Controlled plains of issus as far east as adana (still 2nd largest city in turkey) Territory along euphrates to terqa, well north of babylon. Image 3: tell brak tablet of saustator of nuzi [east of tigris river] Image 4: alalakh legal decision of shaushtatar sent to niqmepa. Legal and administrative documents of states vassal to mitanni. No reason to believe these are fair or reliable assessment. Difference in nomenclature of mitanni depends on.
