Approaches to Mycenaean-Hittite Interconnections in the Late Bronze Age (original) (raw)

2018, Change, Continuity, and Connectivity: North-Eastern Mediterranean at the turn of the Bronze Age and in the early Iron Age

The paper is written as a part of project ‘The Trojan Catalogue (Hom. Il. 2.816-877) and the Peoples of western Anatolia in the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age. A Study of the Homeric Text in the Light of Hittite Sources and Classical Geographical Tradition’ (2015/19/P/HS3/04161), which has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 665778 with the National Science Centre, Poland. This paper deals with both, archaeological evidence for cultural links between the Mycenaean world and western Anatolia in the Late Bronze Age, and the Ahhiyawa problem that is based on nearly thirty Hittite texts (among the thousands that had been found in the archives of the Hittite capital Hattusa, modern Boğazkale about 150 km as the crow flies east of Ankara), in which the term “Ahhiya(wa)” appears.² Both issues are indeed connected and must not be treated separately, although there are still many scholars to do so. What is more, concerning the former “there is an unfortunate tendency in much...

Between the Aegean and the Hittites: The Western Anatolia in Second Millennium BC - FULLTEXT

STAMPOLIDIS, N. – Ç. MANER – K. KOPANIAS (eds.): NOSTOI. Indigenous Culture, Migration and Integration in the Aegean Islands and Western Anatolia during the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age (Istanbul 2015) 81‒114., 2015

Western Anatolia played a more or less prominent role in a number of archaeological and historical scenarios over the years, notwithstanding the fact that, despite more than a century of research, we still largely know only the coastal sites. The vast area between the coast and the Anatolian plateau is known only from surveys, with the sole exception of Beycesultan. It is therefore necessary to develop a new chronological periodisation and cultural scheme, appropriate to the fragmentary survey material and lacking stratigraphies. Both will be proposed in this paper. Using the latest information on Troy, Liman Tepe, Bademgediği Tepe, and Miletus together with firsthand knowledge of material from both East Aegean littoral islands and the West Anatolian inland sites, the article discusses the available settlement structure, makes use of some basic GIS applications, draws eventual cultural boundaries based on pottery distribution, and attempts to compare the thus gained archaeological groupings with the currently valid so-called Hittite political geography for Western Anatolia. Finally, it proposes some lines of thought concerning the identity of the population in the individual archaeologically identifiable cultural groupings.

NEW LIGHT ON RELATIONS BETWEEN THE MYCENAEAN WORLD AND HITTITE ANATOLIA

Archeologia LX , 2009

This paper refers to the hotly debated issue of mutual relations between the Mycenaean world and the Hittites in western Anatolia. An archaeological history of Miletus (Millawanda of Hittite texts) is outlined, with an emphasis put on its exceptional position as the main Mycenaean colony in western Anatolia, maintaining contanct with the interior along the trade route leading eastwards through the valleys of Cine (Marsyas) stream and the Buyuk Menderes (Meander) river. The finds of a Hittite seal impression and Mycenaean-type, LH IIIB – IIIC, pottery from Cine-Tepecik shed new light on emulation processes to be observed in the local (material) culture and the stronger Hittite impact on both, Miletus and the Cine plain in the second half of the 13th century B.C.

On the Nature of Hittite Diplomatic Relations with Mycenaean Rulers

Awīlum ša la mašê – man who cannot be forgotten. Studies in Honor of Prof. Stefan Zawadzki Presented on the Occasion of his 70th Birthday, 2018

The paper is written as a part of project ‘The Trojan Catalogue (Hom. Il. 2.816-877) and the Peoples of western Anatolia in the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age. A Study of the Homeric Text in the Light of Hittite Sources and Classical Geographical Tradition’ (2015/19/P/HS3/04161), which has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 665778 with the National Science Centre, Poland.

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Hittite Traces in Istanbul

The Political Geography of Western Anatolia in the Late Bronze Age, Ivo Hajnal, Eberhard Zangger and Jorrit Kelder (editors) Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft, 2021