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By Trevor Bryce
Within the early twelfth century, the overdue Bronze Age Hittite empire collapsed in the course of a sequence of upheavals which swept the Greek and close to japanese worlds. within the next Iron Age, a variety of towns and states emerged in south-eastern Anatolia and northerly Syria, that are usually identified this day because the "Neo-Hittite kingdoms." Bryce's quantity provides an account of the army and political background of those kingdoms, relocating past the Neo-Hittites themselves to the wider close to japanese international and the states which ruled it throughout the Iron Age.
Divided into 3 sections, The global of Neo-Hittite Kingdoms seems on the final many years of the empire and the good points of those kingdoms and their next remedy below their Anatolian successors. via a more in-depth examine the person Neo-Hittite kingdoms and their rulers and a comparability with the modern Aramaean states and the opposite kingdoms of the age--notably the Neo-Assyrian empire --it concludes with a old synthesis of the Neo-Hittites while the final state was once absorbed into the Assyrian provincial administration.
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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?