Ambiguity of Divine and Royal Portraiture and the Hiyawan Image of Kingship: Political Identity through the Monuments of ÇİNEKÖY and KARATEPE

Lovejoy, Nathan

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“…The inscriptions of these rulers all include Phoenician texts, and each ruler also produced a Luwian-Phoenician bilingual. 10 In both instances, these texts are found on statues representing a local hypostasis of the Storm-god of the Vineyard, possibly inspired by the intrusive stele from Karkemiš, and the figures are identified as both the Luwian Tarhunza and the Phoenician Ba'al (Lovejoy 2022;. In the KARATEPE inscription, we also find the Luwian Stag-god Runza translated into the Phoenician Resheph of the Goats, and Ea translated into El.…”

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“…This reform resulted in a new cosmopolitan conceptualisation of the divine in which the gods most closely tied to Hiyawan kingship bore multiple identities. And while each ruler sought to express their own political identity in unique ways that reflect the changing socio-political landscape of the later 8th century BCE (Lovejoy 2022), the institution of Hiyawan kingship was transformed already through its association with new sources of legitimation. While the Storm-god remained the foundation of sacral kingship, in Hiyawa, it was no longer the warrior god wielding axe and lightning, but a provider god bearing grape and grain.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Administrative Practices and Political Control in Anatolian and Syro-Anatolian Polities in the 2nd and 1st Millennium BCE

Mora

2023

Studia Asiana

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This volume originates from a research project, which was funded within the PRIN program Writing Uses: Transmission of Knowledge, Administrative Practices and Political Control in Anatolian and Syro-Anatolian Polities in the 2nd and 1st Millennium BCE. The project involved ‘research units’ from different Italian universities (Torino, Pavia, Bologna, Firenze, Napoli - Suor Orsola Benincasa). The papers presented here, seek to fill some gaps in our knowledge of the Hittite Empire and its epigones, and offer an updated picture of some aspects of the Hittite and post-Hittite administration in Anatolia and Syria through the analysis and interpretation of epigraphic and archaeological evidence.

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Administrative Practices and Political Control in Anatolian and Syro-Anatolian Polities in the 2nd and 1st Millennium BCE

Mora

2023

Studia Asiana

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Rulership and the Gods: The Role of Cultic Institutions in the Late Bronze to Iron Age Transition in Anatolia and Northern Syria

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2023

Studia Asiana

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This paper aims to demonstrate that cults and cultic institutions are a crucial element for understanding the processes producing different regional outcomes after the fall of the Hittite empire. In this paper, cults are understood as normative cosmic forces defining tempo and worldview of ancient societies. Cultic institutions can be identified as physical spaces defined by purity, charged with real and symbolic value, and led by specialists whose competence is recognised by the community. Instead of being a by-product of political complexity, they are a driving force behind the power dynamics because they are perceived as such in a bottom-up perspective, but also often by main political actors in search of legitimation of their power. This paper examines the interconnections between cultic and political institutions in the territory under the Hittite empire and in the same space after the empire’s demise. We aim to distinguish between processes of resilience, reorganisation, and transformation as they occurred in particular micro-regions previously controlled by the empire, including the Upper Euphrates, South-Central Anatolia, North-Central Anatolia, Cilicia, and the Northern Levant; this will demonstrate both the importance of such a micro-regionally defined study, as well as the shared coincidence of cultic and political institutional change. It will become evident that cultic continuity coincided with the resilience of political institutions, and changes in the cultic landscape corresponded to political reorganisations or transformations in post-Hittite Anatolia and north Syria.

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Ambiguity of Divine and Royal Portraiture and the Hiyawan Image of Kingship: Political Identity through the Monuments of ÇİNEKÖY and KARATEPE

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Administrative Practices and Political Control in Anatolian and Syro-Anatolian Polities in the 2nd and 1st Millennium BCE

Administrative Practices and Political Control in Anatolian and Syro-Anatolian Polities in the 2nd and 1st Millennium BCE

Rulership and the Gods: The Role of Cultic Institutions in the Late Bronze to Iron Age Transition in Anatolia and Northern Syria

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