CLCIV 101 Lecture 4: Lecture 4
13 Jun 2016
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Linear b: internal economic records only, relating to the final year only. The capital of the hittites at bo azk y (ancient hattusa), near ankara, turkey. We know that there is hattusa, the lion gate, c. 1400 b. c. A clay tablet in hittite from hittite capital hattusa, c. 1280 b. c. Hittite archives: the land of ahhiya or ahhiyawa: in western turkey or the aegean. The kings who are my equals in rank are the king of egypt, the king of babylonia, the. King of assyria, and the king of ahhiyawa - king of the hittites, c. 1220 b. c. Emil forrer (1894 1986): ahhiyawa = achaia (achaiwiya) = mycenaean greece. How did the hittites and mycenaeans get along? gift of a hittite charioteer to king of ahhiyawa: compare myth of wealthy pelops from lydia (first king of mycenae) and his charioteer myrsilus (like hittite name. 1400 1350: maduwatta revolts from hittite king and joins atarissiya of ahhiyawa.
