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Hittite Objects in the Bronze Age Aegean*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

Eric H. Cline
Eric H. Cline
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University of Pennyslvania
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Some twenty-three objects in the Bronze Age Aegean have been identified as “Hittite” in previous literature. Scholars investigating the nature of the relations between Hittites and Mycenaeans continue to cite one or more of these objects, although many have since been shown to be of non-Hittite origins. In this paper I propose to reexamine the “authenticity” of the Hittite objects reported within the Bronze Age Aegean. The twenty-three objects in question can readily be grouped as to (A) those which might be and (B) those which are not Central Anatolian Hittite in origin.

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Anatolian Studies , Volume 41 , December 1991 , pp. 133 - 143
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Copyright © The British Institute at Ankara 1991

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