RT Article
T1 ‘And I built this Everlasting Peak for him’. The Two Scribal Traditions of the Hittites and the NA4ḫekur SAG.UŠ
JF Altorientalische Forschungen
VO 38
IS 2
SP 213
OP 225
A1 Balza, Maria Elena
A2 Mora, Clelia
LA German
YR 2011
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1801474486
AB During the Late Hittite Empire, in the second half of the 13 th century BC, there is a change in the way history is written, as the Anatolian hieroglyphic script seems to become the privileged medium for communicating royal ideology. Hieroglyphic was considered the most appropriate means for the diffusion of the most important messages, i.e. who the true king was and who his protective god was. The present paper deals with the contemporary use of two writing systems by the last Hittite kings and with the association between hieroglyphic inscriptions and the monuments called NA4 ḫekur SAG.UŠ documented in a few Hittite texts. Additionally, it discusses some hypotheses on the location of the NA4 ḫekur SAG.UŠ mentioned in the preserved cuneiform sources.
K1 NA4ḫekur
K1 Scribal Traditions
K1 Late Hittite Empire
K1 Luwian hieroglyphic inscriptions
DO 10.1524/aofo.2011.0014