"We are all descendants of Šuppiluliuma, Great King" The Aleppo Treaty Reconsidered
The article discusses the formal features of the Aleppo Treaty (CTH 75) and its position in the diversified corpus of documents issued by the Hittite kings for the rulers of subjugated territories, especially for those who were members of the Hittite royal family. A renewed analysis of the text as w...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2010
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Die Welt des Orients
Year: 2010, Volume: 40, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-27 |
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| Summary: | The article discusses the formal features of the Aleppo Treaty (CTH 75) and its position in the diversified corpus of documents issued by the Hittite kings for the rulers of subjugated territories, especially for those who were members of the Hittite royal family. A renewed analysis of the text as well as comparison with the Tarȟuntašša treaties allows to hypothesize that its peculiarities do not depend on its being an official copy of an older document, but may well belong to the original document issued by Muršili II and reflect the very nature of CTH 75, which in many ways bears more similarity to a land grant than to a subjugation treaty. An appendix is dedicated to the prosopographical analysis of the human witnesses who are listed at the end of the Treaty. |
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| ISSN: | 2196-9019 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Die Welt des Orients
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