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  The Hittites   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The Hittite king was not only the chief ruler, military leader, and supreme judge but also the earthly deputy of the storm god; upon dying, he himself became a god.
Thus it appears that the Hittites regarded their own history as beginning with a king called Labarnas (Labarnash); this inference is confirmed by the use in later times of his name and that of his wife Tawannannas as dynastic titles or throne names of subsequent rulers.
While the king was at Kummanni, he was joined by his brother Piyasilis, king of Carchemish, who was taken ill and died; his death sparked off a revolt in Syria supported by Egypt and Assyria, but the appearance of the king himself at the head of his imperial army proved sufficient to suppress it.
history-world.org /hittites.htm   (5137 words)

  
 ANATOLIA IN THE OLD ASSYRIAN PERIOD HISTORY
Lists of these officials made it possible to ascertain their sequence, and the practice of making the king limum in one of the early years of his reign served to co-ordinate the eponym-list with the king-list.
Proof of the identity of this King Anitta with the ‘commander of the fortress’ of the Kultepe tablet is furnished by one of the documents excavated at Alisar.
Now the list of textiles also states that the karum at the place where this prince resided received some of the items for the account of Shu-Ishtar, son of Ilish-tikkal, and he is attested as a contemporary of the well-known Imdi-ilum, who belonged to the first generation of Assyrian merchants.
www.ancientworlds.net /aw/HomesiteRoom/221062   (3017 words)

  
 An Introduction to 1 and 2 Kings   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Kings may have been one book C. The English has adopted the fourfold division of the historical books after the Greek Septuagint but with the Hebrew names of 1 and 2 Samuel and 1 and 2 Kings D. The Books of Samuel and Kings cover Israel's period as a nation under a king: 1.
Kings would have been written in two redactions: (1) pre-exilic during Josiah's reign and reforms which explains the pro-southern kingdom tone, and (2) exilic prompted by the release of Jehoiachin (560 B.C.) and dated around 550 B.C. However, Deuteronomy demonstrates unity on the level of a second millennium Hittite suzerainty- vassel treaty.
Biographical information is given: 1) The king's age at accession 2) The length of the king's reign 3) The name of the queen mother 4) Jerusalem as the capital of the king 5) An evaluation of the king's moral character and spiritual leadership c.
members.aol.com /naccbcandcpcs/kin.htm   (3871 words)

  
 The Sumerian King List
In the King list the dynasty of Ackak lies between the reign of Kug-Bau and her son Puzur-Suen but the list is clear that here is spoken of 1 dynasty.
The Kings of the fourth (the last) dynasty of Kic were so far degenerated from their ancestors, the Sons of Gods, that the Akkadians (Sargon I) could conquer them and established a new empire called the Akkadian period.
The Kings of the third (the last) dynasty of Unug were also so far degenerated from their ancestors, the Sons of Gods, that the Akkadians (Sargon I) could conquer them also, even as the Godly dynasties of Kic.
www.bibliotecapleyades.net /sitchin/king_list1.htm   (3336 words)

  
 Hittite Cuneiform   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
He knew that in the large number of theories about the Hittite language none, with the exception of a single scholar (a Norwegian orientalist, Knudtson), who afterward recanted his idea after it was greeted with universal scorn, had suggested that Hittite was an Indo-European language.
Pecularity of the Hittite method of writing may be mentioned here, namely "alography", the practice of writing a different word from that which was actually pronounced.
Hittite texts are liberally interspersed with purely Akkadian and Sumerian words, the latter usually written by single signs, the use of which as "ideograms" can often be recognised only by means of context, for they maybe the same signs that are normally used for mere syllables.
idcs0100.lib.iup.edu /WestCivI/hittite_cuneiform.htm   (2087 words)

  
 Ancient Egyptian Kings and Queens
It is undoubtably true, though, that the king displayed great prowess and valor in the ambush turned battle, for he and his soldiers would have been fighting for their lives.
The records of both the Egyptians and Hittites give vastly differing accounts of the event, though this is not unexpected in cultures where bragging was a ritualized art form.
It is not known why she chose this unusual step, but she must have had the support of influential factions, such as her father's favored officials, and a lack of objection from her nephew.
homepage.mac.com /scarab1/kings.html   (2007 words)

  
 -Patriarchs, Kings and Rulers of Armenia-
King Vahe Haykazuni died at Gaugamelles together with his offspring in the battle against Alexander of Macedon on 1 October 331 before common era.
While his ally Darius, king of Persia, fled the battleground leaving his army behind, Vahe chose to fight to the end and die as a true warrior and true king.
Pierre I Lusignan, king of Cyprus (1368 - 1369)
www.bvahan.com /ArmenianWay/AW/Nobility/Atabekian_Kings_List_Eng.html   (1991 words)

  
 J Paterson Smyth Prophets and Kings
Imagine a King in our day in like circumstances, after waiting vainly for a clergyman, rising up at last in irreverent impatience to consecrate the Holy Communion himself, as a matter of form to be gone through, or a superstitious rite that might bring good luck to the army.
It was the Lord who had made him king, and not for his own sake, or his own reward, but for Israel's sake, because God would lay upon him now that service of his brethren for which all his previous life in the sheepfolds and the mountain caves had been a preparation.
And all King Solomon's drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of fine gold; none were of silver; it was nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon.
mywebpages.comcast.net /rlaurio/ProphetsKings.html   (20601 words)

  
 Miles of Clay: Information Management in the Ancient Near Eastern Hittite Empire
n the late summer of 1325, the Hittite king Suppiluliuma received a written request from the widow of the pharaoh of Egypt for a son: this son was supposed to marry her and become the next pharaoh.
Since we know that in the Hittite empire religion was an integral and essential part of the administration, there is no need to be surprised at the overwhelming presence of documents of a religious character in the tablet collections or to use that observation in determining the character of the tablet collection.
A king by the name of Walmu was expelled in a coup d'itat and he fled to a king in the vicinity.
fathom.lib.uchicago.edu /1/777777190247   (3501 words)

  
 Rome and Romania, Roman Emperors, Byzantine Emperors, etc.
The success of the great struggle of the Maccabees to free the Jews from the Seleucid Kings is still commemorated in the holiday of Hanukkah, based on an incident when the Temple was reconsecrated after the liberation of Jerusalem.
Ermanaric was King of the Greuthungi, and it is unlikely that he ruled a domain that stretched to the Baltic.
After a King of Burgundy, Gundobad, briefly had his own figurehead on the throne, a new nominee of the Eastern Emperor, Julius Nepos, and a new commander, Orestes, were installed.
www.friesian.com /romania.htm   (13907 words)

  
 BRI/TIM - The Bible - The King James Version - 1 Kings 15
So Benhadad hearkened unto king Asa, and sent the captains of the hosts which he had against the cities of Israel, and smote Ijon, and Dan, and Abelbethmaachah, and all Cinneroth, with all the land of Naphtali.
Then king Asa made a proclamation throughout all Judah; none [was] exempted: and they took away the stones of Ramah, and the timber thereof, wherewith Baasha had builded; and king Asa built with them Geba of Benjamin, and Mizpah.
In the third year of Asa king of Judah began Baasha the son of Ahijah to reign over all Israel in Tirzah, twenty and four years.
www.tims.net /bible/kjv/1_kings-15.htm   (909 words)

  
 The Second Book of Samuel
And it came to pass, after the year was expired, at the time when kings go forth to battle, that David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the children of Ammon, and besieged Rabbah.
And it came to pass in an eveningtide, that David arose from off his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king's house: and from the roof he saw a woman washing herself; and the woman was very beautiful to look upon.
But Uriah slept at the door of the king's house with all the servants of his lord, and went not down to his house.
www.ibiblio.org /Bahai/Texts/EN/2Kings/2Kings-11.html   (789 words)

  
 CVCO - Overbooked: King Tut Stars
PW In year five of his reign, fourteen-year-old Pharaoh Tutankhamun is beset by problems: The Hittites are encroaching, and several of Egypt's vassal states have fallen because of the neglect of his late brother, the heretic Akhenaten.
Told from the point of view of a Hittite slave who is the chief servant of Akhenaten's third daughter, this intimate account of life in an ancient empire lets the reader feel how the great events of the time affected the human heart.
The brutal murder of the boy-king and his queen's subsequent overtures to neighboring kings are just two of Dr. Brier's startling allegations as he pieces together the evidence and comes back with a convincing verdict.
www.overbooked.org /booklists/subjects/history/tut.html   (1334 words)

  
 Egyptian New Kingdom, Babylonia, Assyria, Hittites, etc.
Ironically, it was the Hittites who then brought to an end the Kingdom of the Mitanni, which may have been ruled by a noble elite with Indo-Aryan affinities, speaking or influenced by another Indo-European language from the same family as Persian and Sanskrit, and who worshiped gods obviously identical to those of the Vedas.
The Hittites subsequently fought to their own draw with the Egyptians, and another modus vivendi (now with the XIX Dynasty), until being swept away themselves, leaving the field to, of course, the Assyrians.
The list of Kings is from Amélie Kuhrt, The Ancient Near East, c.3000-330 BC [Routledge, 1995, 2000, Volume II, p.552] and A.E. Redgate, The Armenians [Basil Blackwell, 1998, 2000, pp.29-30].
www.friesian.com /notes/newking.htm   (7979 words)

  
 Were the Phoenicians Related to the Hittites?
But even before the age of the Hittites, Anatolia was significant for a far more important reason: it is the growing consensus of experts from several different fields that it is the birth-place of all the Indo-European languages.
A coincidence, that is, until he studied the King Lists embedded in the Purana of the Northern Indians.
He adds, “In 1907, in the old Hittite capital, Boghaz Koi in Cappadocia, Winckler discovered the original treaty of about 1400 BC between the Khatti or Hittites and their kinsmen neighbors on the east, in Ancient Persia, the Mitani (who were the ancient Medes).
phoenicia.org /hittitephoenicians.html   (2664 words)

  
 KNLS Author's Journal - Humble 03
It may be Hittite art, and if so, confirms the Bible record that Hittites were in the land in the days of Abraham and his sons.
So if the lion and dog really are Hittite art, they show that there were Hittites in the land in the days of the patriarchs, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, just like the Bible says.
But the Hittites are a good example of how archeology has confirmed the accuracy of the Bible.
www.knls.org /English/trascripts/humble03.htm   (1734 words)

  
 Phoenix Wargaming Club - King of Kings. A DBA Campaign
This campaign represents the struggle between the Egyptian, Assyrian and Hittite Empires for domination of the Near East.
The Hittites are defending a Client, so take a standard army of the appropriate type: in this case, Sea People (1 HCh, 2 WW, 8 Wb, 1 Ps) but get to supplement it with three bases from the Hittite list.
The Hittites are strong in light infantry and chariots, but they have almost no heay infantry, and their chariots are vulnerable to bows.
www.geocities.com /glasgowphoenix/king.html   (2748 words)

  
 Anatolia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The Hittites, arising in central Anatolia within what later was known as Cappadocia, were one of the earliest peoples to make extensive use of iron.
The populations was Luwian, and spoke an Indo-European language related to Hittite.
At a much later era, Bithynia was the heartland of Byzantine opposition to the Latin Empire in the 13th century (see Nicaea), and the cradle of Ottoman power, during the 14th century CE.
www.hostkingdom.net /turkey.html   (2597 words)

  
 tbaptist.com 1st Kings Lessons 7-12
Many years after this (B.C. 610) Pharaohnecho II, on his march against the king of Assyria, passed through the plains of Philistia and Sharon; and King Josiah, attempting to bar his progress in the plain of Megiddo, was defeated by the Egyptians.
King Solomon’s builders undoubtedly deliberately selected the wood of the almug tree for the pillars of the temple because of its specific qualities of strength, beauty, and long life.”
And the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one LORD, and his name one.
www.tbaptist.com /lessons/1kings-2.html   (5762 words)

  
 The End of the Egyptian-Hittite Hostilities
After the inconclusive Battle of Kadesh both the Hittite empire and Egypt came under increased pressure from the Sea Peoples and the reemerging Assyria, which led them to conclude a peace treaty about 16 years later, in the twenty-first year of the reign of Ramses II.
The treaty has been preserved both in its Hittite and Egyptian version and its contents are identical apart from the opening: In the Egyptian version it was the Hittite king suing for peace, while in the Hittite version it was the pharaoh, who sent emissaries to Hatti.
Hattusili wrote to Kadashman-Enlil, king of Karduniash in the same spirit, reminding him of the time when his father, Kadashman-Turgu, had offered to fight the king of Egypt.
www.terraflex.co.il /ad/egypt/egyptian-hittite-peace-treaty.htm   (721 words)

  
 Jeroboam, The Pragmatist: A Sermon on 1 Kings 11 and 12   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
As you read through 1 and 2 Kings, time and again you come to the phrase, “He walked in all the ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat and in his sin, which he had caused Israel to commit.” Jeroboam set this horrible precedent for kings of his country.
Upon David’s death, the country is prosperous and there is no objection to Solomon becoming king, but during the time of Jeroboam, they may very well have felt that the covenant was over – they were free to choose their own king.
So the king did not listen to the people; for it was a turn of events from the LORD, that He might establish His word, which the LORD spoke through Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
members.tripod.com /~tcpiii/1kings11a.htm   (3736 words)

  
 completelest   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Pre-Roman Latium knew Her as Rhea Silvia, Rhea of the Woodland, under Whose rule, the Vestal Virgins were neither celibate nuns, nor servants of the state, as they became in later ages.
They were choosers and deposers of the early Latin kings, a college of matronae who ruled the rulers and took no husbands.
Irish kings were symbolically united with a white mare up to the 11th century.
www.mothergoddess.com /completelist.htm   (5777 words)

  
 Internet Ancient History Sourcebook: Mesopotamia
Hittite Pottery and Potters: The View from Late Bronze Age Gordion [At Emory/Bib.Arch][Modern Account]
Letter of Pabi, Prince of Lachish, to Akhnaton, King of Kemet (i.e.
Each of its four sides is divided into five compartments of sculpture representing the tribute brought to the Assyrian King by vassal princes, Jehu of Israel being among the number.
www.fordham.edu /halsall/ancient/asbook03.html   (1172 words)

  
 ancient middleast
Museum Carves out Room for King's Ego __ The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago is dedicating a full room display to King Sargon II, of Assyria.
The Epic of Kings __ English translation of the Epic of Kings by the Persian author, Ferdowsi.
The royal seals of Darius and Xerxes always depict a king victorious in his fight with ferocious animals or monsters, a scene also depicted in the royal reliefs." Here is a look at ancient Persia and the city of Persepolis as depicted on seals.
www.archaeolink.com /middleast1.htm   (3343 words)

  
 Archaeology on the Net - Archaeology Resources on the Internet - Linguistics
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The Chicago Hittite Dictionary Project (CHD) was officially started in 1975 with the awarding of an NEH grant to Harry A. Hoffner and Hans G. Güterbock, the editors.
It was conceived in answer to a recognized need for a Hittite-English lexical tool, a concordance for lexicographical research for all parts of the corpus of Hittite texts.
members.tripod.com /~archonnet/linguist.html   (598 words)

  
 Dynasties The New Kingdom
The historian Manetho (270 BC) wrote a history of Egypt giving the number of dynasties, the number of kings, their names and the length of each reign.
There was a succession of extraordinary and able kings and queens who laid the foundations of a strong Egypt and bequeathed a prosperous economy to the kings of the 19
She was unable to exploit the revolution of the Iron Age and there followed a succession of kings all called Rameses.
www.eyelid.co.uk /dynasty3.htm   (463 words)

  
 The Ten Commandments: analysis of the text, authors, format and meaning
Usually, the preferences of Jews, Roman Catholics and some Lutherans is overruled, and the Protestant format is chosen.
According to rabbinic tradition, the purpose for having two tablets was to divide the Ten Commandments under two rubrics.
This would follow the Hittite tradition of making two copies of each treaty: one for the Hittite king and the other for the vassals.
www.religioustolerance.org /chr_10c4.htm   (769 words)

  
 ancient middle east / persia
"The accuracy of the dating is such that a comparison between the Assyrian king list and that of Egypt is used to establish 'target' dates upon which to hang other ancient events." - From Assyria Online - http://www.aina.org/aol/kinglist
Plato had envisioned a fixed, mathematical realm of perfect forms that superseded the physical realm of imperfection." There is a lot to learn in this paper.
A simple list of Hittite kings which may be of great value for some projects.
www.archaeolink.com /ancient_middle_east_and_persia.htm   (1671 words)

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