Wilusa: Reconsidering the Evidence
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Vangelis D. Pantazis
Abstract
The detailed examination of the sources presented here have indicated that the prevailing opinion, according to which Wilusa is to be identified with Homeric (F)ilios and Taruisa with Troas, should be abandoned. In our opinion, Wilusa was most probably an inland vassal state between Hatti, Lukka, Seha and Millawanda. Its only possible location, being in full agreement with the Hittite texts, should be in the upper course of the Meander. It is not mere coincidence that in this specific area a pre-Hellenic toponym, that is very similar to Wilusa, survived as the seat of a bishop until the early Christian period, namely Ilouza (’Ίλουζα). Wilusa/Ilouza should be identified with the prehistoric city of Beycesultan, where one of the most important administrative centres of the Bronze Age and subsequently an Early Christian city flourished. Accordingly, the next member of Aššuwa coalition T(a)ruisa can tentatively be identified with the pre-Hellenic site of Trysa, in south Lycia.
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- Auseinandertreten, wenn alle einer Meinung sind – Überlegungen zur discessio
- Pompeius’ Career from 79 to 70 BCE: Constitutional, Political and Historical Considerations
- Caesars Griff nach Gallien
- Algunas consideraciones sobre la ambiguitas religiosa en el s. IV d. C. los discursos de Claudio Mamertino y Pacato
- Die Vita et passio Cypriani: Aussageabsicht und historischer Hintergrund
- Un canon africano concerniente a las obligaciones de los hijos de los eclesiásticos durante la Antigüedad Tardía
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