Warriors of Hatti
The rise and fall of the Hittites, Turkey’s splendid Bronze Age civilization
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Footnotes
Interestingly, the only Late Bronze Age inscription found at Troy was written in Luwian, a language closely related to Hittite and attested in western Anatolia. See Birgit Brandau, “Can Archaeology Discover Homer’s Troy?” AO 01:01.
E.C. Krupp, “Sacred Sex in the Hittite Temple of Yazilikaya,” AO 03:02.
Endnotes
Biblical references to the Hittites include: Genesis 15:20, 23:3–20, 25:9–10, 26:34, 27:46, 36:2, 49:29–32, 50:13; Exodus 3:8, 17, 13:5, 23:23, 28, 33:2, 34:11; Numbers 13:29; Deuteronomy 7:1, 20:17; Joshua 1:4, 3:10, 9:1, 11:3, 12:8, 24:11; Judges 1:26, 3:5; 1 Samuel 26:6; 2 Samuel 11:3–24, 12:9–10, 23:39, 24:6; 1 Kings 9:20, 10:29, 11:1, 15:5; 2 Kings 7:6; 1 Chronicles 11:41; 2 Chronicles 1:17, 8:7; Ezra 9:1; Nehemiah 9:8; and Ezekiel 16:3, 45.
Ahmet Ünal, Ahmet Ertekin and Ismet Ediz, “The Hittite Sword from Bogazköy-Hattusa, Found 1991, and its Akkadian Inscription,” Müze 4 (1991), pp. 46–52; Ahmet Ertekin and Ismet Ediz, “The Unique Sword from Bogazköy/Hattusa,” in Aspects of Art and Iconography: Anatolia and Its Neighbors. Studies in Honor of Nimet Özgüç, Machteld J. Mellink, Edith Porada, and Tahsin Özgüç, eds. (Ankara, 1993), pp. 719–725.
Wolf-Dietrich Niemeier, “The Mycenaeans in Western Anatolia and the Problem of the Origins of the Sea Peoples,” in Mediterranean Peoples in Transition: Thirteenth to Early Tenth Centuries B.C.E., Seymour Gitin, Amihai Mazar and Ephraim Stern, eds. (Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, 1998), pp. 17–65.
To Bryce’s bibliographic references to the sword should be added the following articles, which appeared while Bryce’s book was in press: Eric H. Cline, “Assuwa and the Achaeans: The ‘Mycenaean’ Sword at Hattusas and its Possible Implications,” Annual of the British School at Athens 91 (1996), pp. 137–151 and “Achilles in Anatolia: Myth, History, and the Assuwa Rebellion,” in Crossing Boundaries and Linking Horizons: Studies in Honor of Michael Astour on His 80th Birthday, Gordon D. Young, Mark W. Chavalas, and Richard E. Averbeck, eds. (Bethesda, MD: CDL Press, 1997), pp. 189–210.