Seeking a Political Space: Thoughts on the Formative Stage of Hittite Administration in Syria
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Lorenzo d’Alfonso
Abstract
During the second half of the 14th century BC the Hittites conquered Northern and Central Syria. Although this wide region remained under the control of the Hittite Empire until its last days some 150 years later, the process of the installation of a new provincial administration was longer and more complex than scholars have assumed until recently. Two issues contributed to the complexity of the process: the dynamic between centre and periphery and that between indigenous administrations and new Hittite officials in charge in Syria. The present contribution gathers a number of clues for the identification of three phases in the existence of this new administration, the first two centred on the negotiation of the political space and the third on its proper realisation.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Seeking a Political Space: Thoughts on the Formative Stage of Hittite Administration in Syria
- The Tablet and its Scribe: Between Archival and Scribal Spaces in Late Empire Period Ḫattusa
- L’écriture de l’espace : la perception de l’espace dans l’écriture hiéroglyphique anatolienne
- ‘And I built this Everlasting Peak for him’. The Two Scribal Traditions of the Hittites and the NA4ḫekur SAG.UŠ
- The Genealogy of Suppiluliuma I
- One-year or Five-year War? A Reappraisal of Suppiluliuma’s First Syrian Campaign
- Ališarruma, König von Išuwa
- Duplikate und Anschlüsse zu hethitischen Mythen und Gebeten
- The Meter of Hurrian Narrative Song
- Akkadian Terms for Streets and the Topography of Mesopotamian Cities
- Anmerkungen zu mittelassyrischen Texten. 7
