Posted on 11/23/2021 8:25:48 AM PST by SunkenCiv
A 3,250-year-old seal belonging to a Hittite prince and an ancient cuneiform tablet dating back 3,400 years were discovered in Turkey's southern Hatay province... in Accana Hoyuk of the Reyhanli district...
Murat Akar, the head of the excavation team and Mustafa Kemal University's Protohistory and Near East Archeology Department chair, said... "The tablet, around 3,400 years old, and the accompanying cylinder seals give us information about the administration and administrative practices of the region, especially during a period when the region was under the rule of the Mitanni Empire."
He said they had found a 3,250-year-old seal during the latest excavation, adding that the item is one of the most important discoveries of this year, helping us understand "what happened during the period after the region came under the Hittite control" as well as "define its administrative and political dynamics."
Akar further noted that the findings provide information about the administrative and archival practices in the Alalakh ancient city, the capital of the Mukish Kingdom in the Middle and Late Bronze Age...
The impressions on the cylinder seals show the existence of a ruling class in the region, Akar said, adding: "This last one, with Luwian hieroglyphic inscription on it, gives us the name of a Hittite prince whose name is not included in other written documents in Alalakh and appears for the first time."
He did not reveal the name of the Hittite prince, but said a Hittitology academic at Istanbul University Faculty of Letters, Hasan Peker, will share the name of the prince with the scientific community once the research is completed.
(Excerpt) Read more at aa.com.tr ...
One of *those* topics. The text is a mess.
TRUMPIUS?...................
The Manhattan DA plans to subpeona all these Hittite records.
And the Jan 6th Commission................
Probably Abraham’s kin.
Proper skin care, ancient Hittite secrets.
No, probably not. Thanks for not reading the article.
Cyprus H Gordon wrote that Abraham probably carried credentials from the Hittite monarch, since he was always ushered in before kings wherever he went. And Abraham was of royal blood.
Gordon's speculation isn't compelling, not least because Abraham was a Semite, and "Hittite" is not a Semitic language, which leaves him right out of the "Hittite" royal family.
Add to that, the big "Hittite" archive had loads of cuneiform tablets, most of which were in two languages (neither one is Semitic), with a smattering of other languages (including some Assyrian, which is a Semitic language) here and there. The names for the languages given *in* the languages are not "Hittite" or "Hattish" (the two working names picked in modern times), and the name "Hittites" was picked from the OT.
“Gordon’s speculation isn’t compelling”
That was not Gordon’s speculation, it was my tongue-in-cheek comment that got your panties in a wad.
However, I would value Gordon’s speculation light years ahead of anything you say.
I once suggested that calling a group of people “Hittites” when they speak another language entirely, is like calling the people in Albany, New York “Albanians.”
Ronaldus Magnus ?
This would be the same time when Moses brought the Israelites out of Egypt.
The Hittites and Egyptians were very antagonistic to each other at the time. They were the two major kingdoms always going to war with each other during that time.
Matter of fact, while Moses was being raised in the Pharaohs house, he would have probably trained in warfare against the Hittites.
Egypt usually faired well because of the arid conditions that made it difficult for the Hittite Kingdom armies from doing battle so far away in the arid Desert.
Yet Egypt suffered losses when they went too far from Egypt.
The land of Canaan is what they usually fought over. It was like a buffer zone between them, while all the smaller kingdoms went from supporting ones side to the other.
Matter of fact, no it wasn’t.
Matter of fact, no he didn’t.
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https://arkeonews.net/4000-year-old-cylinder-seal-found-in-blaundos-excavations/
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