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Chapter 8 - The New Kingdom Cuneiform Corpus

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 December 2020

Theo van den Hout
Theo van den Hout
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University of Chicago
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Summary

After a period of political weakness during most of the fifteenth century BC, a re-invigorated kingdom, the New Kingdom, rises under Tuthaliya I around 1425 BC. With this, Hittite literature proliferates. Some genres, typical of the Old Kingdom (charters, palace chronicles), disappear or develop into different kinds of texts, others (e.g., imported and scholarly texts) come into being. This chapter gives an overview of the Hittite written legacy, mostly from the capital Boğazköy/Hattusa but also found elsewhere within the kingdom.

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New Kingdom literaturedevelopmenthistoriographydiplomatic genresfestival scenariosreligionscholarshipritualslexical listsadministration
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A History of Hittite Literacy
Writing and Reading in Late Bronze-Age Anatolia (1650–1200 BC)
 , pp. 139 - 172
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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