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A worthy relic has been brought to the Emerson domestic overlooking the Nile. yet greater than background surrounds this golden likeness of a forgotten king, for it truly is acknowledged early dying will befall an individual who possesses it.
The lady who implores the popular kin of archaeologists and adventurers to just accept the cursed statue insists the ill-gotten treasure has already killed her husband. additional, she warns, until it really is lower back to the tomb from which it was once stolen, extra would certainly die. With the realm eventually at peace—and with Egypt's historical mysteries opened to them as soon as more—Amelia Peabody and her household are plunged right into a hurricane of secrets and techniques, treachery, and homicide via a widow's unusual tale or even stranger request. every one step towards the reality finds a brand new peril, suggesting this curse isn't any mere superstition. And the subsequent sufferer of the small golden king might be any member of the close-knit clan—perhaps even Amelia herself.
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Following the empire’s collapse in the early 12th century, ‘Hatti’ was no longer used of its former Anatolian territories. But it was retained, in Iron Age Assyrian, Urartian, and Hebrew sources, for the Syrian regions over which the Great Kings of Hatti had once held sway. These regions were no longer merely a part of the Land of Hatti. They became in effect the Land of Hatti. The use of ‘Hatti’ to refer to a large part of Iron Age Syria reflects not so much a shift as a contraction of the term to the Syrian region in the aftermath of the Late Bronze Age kingdom’s fall.
In such a context, Hartapu’s inscriptions can be seen as a public declaration, addressed directly to his Luwian-speaking followers, of his right to the Hittite throne, of the endorsement of the greatest of the Hittite gods, who appointed the king as his deputy on earth, and of his military victories on his way to claiming the throne in Hattusa itself. His inscriptions represent not so much boundary-markers of his kingdom, but rather stages in his progress towards his ultimate goal. The most northerly of these, found at Burunkaya, may indicate just how close his forces came to penetrating the southern boundary of the homeland.
The most obvious answer is that it provided them with a more impressive medium than cuneiform for presenting a public record of their achievements. That has been the view of a number of scholars, who stress the element of visual propaganda which the hieroglyphic monuments reflect. 40 Was the hieroglyphic script used essentially for aesthetic and decorative or prestigious reasons, designed to impress a The End of an Era 25 largely monolingual Hittite-speaking society? Or was it designed for a different kind of reader and viewer of both the monuments and the seals?