‘And I built this Everlasting Peak for him’. The Two Scribal Traditions of the Hittites and the^NA4ḫekurSAG.UŠ

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

“…According to some recent studies, Hittite elites would not have invested so many material and human resources in the realisation of these works if they could not have used 15 For a recent examination of some of the stone structures mentioned in Hittite texts, see Mora et al 2017;see, also, Mora, Balza 2010;Balza, Mora 2011 for some general considerations on the subject. 16 On the sanctity of Hittite landscape see, among recent works, Erbil, Mouton 2012;Beckman 2013;Harmanşah 2014 and, with references to previous literature; Archi 2015; Hawkins 2015; Payne 2018.…”