Epic and History in Hittite Anatolia: In Search of a Local Hero

Gilan, Amir

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“…For the Hittite compositions seeBeckman 2001. 37 Beckman 2001Gilan 2008;Gilan 2010. tolian rulers…”

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In search of a distant past: forms of historical consciousness in Hittite Anatolia

Gilan

2018

Anadolu (Anatolia)

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The Hittites of the Old Hittite kingdom could only look back on a relatively short past. With time, however, the kingdom 'without a past' could finally look back and relate to a distant past of its own. The following paper will survey some of ways the Hittites came into contact, imagined, and represented their distant past. Hittite historiography, one of the most elaborate and highly developed traditions of its kind in the ancient Near East, was mainly concerned with contemporary history and only marginally engaged with the distant past. The more distant past was the subject of literature rather than of historiography. Both in the form of translated Mesopotamian literature or in local compositions. But it was in ritual action, as documented in the 'Offering Lists', that long sequences of past names were preserved and performed, constituting a historical scaffold spanning from the earliest phases of the Old Kingdom to the Empire period. The Old Hittite Kingdom began as a 'Kingdom without a past', but with time, the Hittites began to relate and to utilize a distant, sometimes even glorious past of, of their own.

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In search of a distant past: forms of historical consciousness in Hittite Anatolia

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2018

Anadolu (Anatolia)

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“…and trans. of the Hittite versions, seeGilan (2000). SeeGlassner (1985) for further discussion of the themes and meaning of the text, and J. G. Westenholz (2010: 37-9) on the options for the circumstances of its arrival at the court of Hattusa.17 KBo 22.6 iv 26'-30' (translit.…”

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From “Kingship in Heaven” to King Lists: Syro-Anatolian Courts and the History of the World

Bachvarova

2012

J Anc Near East Religions

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AbstractI examine the literary and conceptual background of a Hurro-Hittite ritual calling on divinized royal ancestors (dšarrena), characters from Hurro-Hittite song, members of the Sargonic dynasty, a variety of kings from far-off lands, and the “lord of Hatti” (KUB 27.38). I show that the ritual provides a unique glimpse of the complex Near Eastern tradition telling the history of the world from its beginning. The ritual also helps us to understand how historical memory informed ritual behaviors that legitimated the kingship of regional rulers, allowing them access to the distant past and connecting them to world events. Overall, thešarrenaritual suggests that the histories of the divine and human worlds were linked into a single master narrative by the middle of the second millennium BCE.

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Hi̇ti̇t Meti̇nleri̇nde Akad Çaği İle İlgi̇li̇ Kayitlar

Kiymet¹

2019

Ankara Üniversitesi Dil Ve Tarih-Coğrafya Fakültesi Tarih Bölümü Tarih Araştırmaları Dergisi

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Akad Devleti'ni inceleyen günümüz tarihçileri için işin zor kısmı, ilgili belgelerin çoğunun, bu devletin yıkılışından sonraki döneme tarihlenmesinden kaynaklanmaktadır. Sargon dönemi yazıtları neredeyse hiçbir şekilde doğrudan günümüze ulaşmamıştır. Naramsin yazıtları ise ülkenin her yerinden gelmektedir, ancak bunlar güvenilir bir kronolojik sıra ile düzenlenememektedir. Akad Devleti'nden sonraki yıllarda, her iki kralın askeri seferleri akıllardan asla silinmemiş ve yüzyıllarca kaydedilmiştir.

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Epic and History in Hittite Anatolia: In Search of a Local Hero

Cited by 4 publications

References 15 publications

In search of a distant past: forms of historical consciousness in Hittite Anatolia

In search of a distant past: forms of historical consciousness in Hittite Anatolia

From “Kingship in Heaven” to King Lists: Syro-Anatolian Courts and the History of the World

Hi̇ti̇t Meti̇nleri̇nde Akad Çaği İle İlgi̇li̇ Kayitlar

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