State Correspondence in the Hittite World

Weeden, Mark

doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199354771.003.0003

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Literacy in the ancient Near East

Michałowski¹

2015

The Encyclopedia of Ancient History

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Writing and literacy are often associated with the rise of highly complex societies and the state and as such are generally considered to be a hallmark of ancient Near Eastern societies. While such correlations are indisputable, there is little agreement on matters of causality, process, and function, or on the status of literacy in ancient polities. In the ancient Near East literacy was always restricted, and its scope and power were in constant flux. It was an established factor in economic and social interaction. As a marker of status, authority, and control it was embedded in the omnipresent displays of royal writing that were there for all to see, most significantly by illiterates.

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Literacy in the ancient Near East

Michałowski¹

2015

The Encyclopedia of Ancient History

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The Iron Age States of Central Anatolia and Northern Syria

Weeden¹

2023

The Oxford History of the Ancient Near East Volume IV

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This chapter provides an overview of the history of southeastern Anatolia and northern Syria from ca. 1180 to the middle of the sixth century bc, covering those states that emerged in the aftermath of the collapse of the Late Bronze Age Hittite Empire and that, for the most part, consisted of single cities and their hinterland. The chapter explores how the various sources available today, from archaeological evidence to texts (principally the Assyrian royal inscriptions and various local evidence written in Anatolian hieroglyphic or West Semitic alphabetic script), inform attempts to reconstruct the history of this region. In distilling and combining this information, the chapter attempts to disentangle the different perspectives that emerge from these sources. The aim is to offer a historical narrative that is not told solely from the perspective of the major powers of the day.

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Hittite Society, Economy, and Rituals

Hout

2020

Orient

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State Correspondence in the Hittite World

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Literacy in the ancient Near East

Literacy in the ancient Near East

The Iron Age States of Central Anatolia and Northern Syria

Hittite Society, Economy, and Rituals

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