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An exploration of the importance of the wars of Sety I and of the overall development of Egyptian-Hittite relatives, which culminated first within the conflict of Kadesh and at last within the treaty enacted in the course of the reign of Ramesses II.
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See most recently Jan Assmann, "Krieg und Frieden im alten Agypten: Ramses II. und die Schlacht bei Kadesch," Mannheimer Forum 83/84 (1983-84):185-87, 228, who argues that a "war party" in Egypt-the army-was responsible for assassinating Zannanza and for pushing Egypt into a bellicose policy from which it was only extricated by Ramesses II's peace treaty with Hatti. (Berlin, 1926), pp. 28-30; it has now 129. KUB XIX 20; partly translated by E. 1 been republished by A. Hagenbuchner, Die Korrespondenz der HethiterII, Texte der Hethiter 16 (Heidelberg, 1989), pp.
80. , in Waterhouse, "Syria in the Amarna Age," pp. 138-42) if it is to square a rebellion of Kadesh in the last years of Shuppiluliuma with Aitakama's survival into the reign of Murshili II. 81. EA 161:46-53. For the chronology see Appendix 7. 82. EA 59:21-24, 29-38 (= Moran, Amarna, p. 232). , p. 233, n. 6 ), but the hostile intent is clear from the context. A similar interpretation of EA 59 is advanced by Waterhouse, "Syria in the Amama Age," pp. 135-37, although he dates the letterincorrectly, in my opinion-to Aziru's final shift of allegiance towards Hatti.
14 7 A major offensive against the Hittite empire during Horemheb's reign has been inferred, however, from a controversial inscription, carved onto the rim of a stone libation vessel that was first seen in the shop of a Cairo antiquities dealer in 1973 and has been sighted in Europe since then: Regnal year 16 under the Majesty of the Lord of the Two Lands (nb-t3wy), Horunemheb (sic), the ruler; corresponding to his first campaign of victory, starting from Byblos (and) ending at the land of the vile chief of Carchemish ...