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Kataḫḫa
Kataḫḫa or Kataḫḫi was a name or title of multiple goddesses worshiped in ancient Anatolia by Hattians and Hittites, with the best known example being the tutelary deity of Ankuwa. It has been proposed that goddesses sharing this name were associated with nature and wildlife. In Ankuwa, Kataḫḫa was the head of the local pantheon. Goddesses with the same name were also worshiped in Katapa and other nearby settlements. The goddesses of Ankuwa and Katapa additionally appear in diplomatic treaties. The former was also worshiped in Zippalanda, though it is not certain if she was related in any way to the main local deity, the weather god of Zippalanda. Name and character The theonym Kataḫḫa is derived from the Hattic word ''katta-'', "queen". Multiple writings are attested, for example ''Ka-taḫ-ḫa'', Ka-at-taḫ-ḫa, ''Ka-taḫ-ga'', ''Ḫa-tág-ga'' and ''Ḫa-taḫ-ḫa''. In the oldest texts the name was spelled with an ''i'', rather than ''a'', as the final ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ammamma
Ammamma (also Amamma or Mamma) was the name of multiple Hattian and Hittite goddesses worshiped in central and northern Anatolia in the Bronze Age. The best attested Ammamma served as the tutelary goddess of near Hattusa, and appears in multiple treaties between Hittite kings and foreign rulers. Name and character Attested forms of Ammamma's name in cuneiform include '' dam-ma-am-ma'', ''dam-ma-ma'', ''dma-am-ma'' and logographic dDÌM.NUN.ME. The name of the deity Kammamma is likely etymologically related and can be translated from Hattic as "high Mamma". The personal name Mamma and the cultic term ''salammama-'' might be related to this name too. Volkert Haas argued that Mamma is the base form and that it can be translated as "mother". However, according to Ingeborg Hoffmann a connection between this goddess and motherhood cannot be established. According to , the theonym Ammamma and its variants might have originated as a Hattic term referring to an entire category of godd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Telipinu (mythology)
Telipinu (; Hattic: ''Talipinu'' or ''Talapinu'', "Exalted Son")Beckman, Gary. "Telipinu" in ''Reallexicon der Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen Archäologie'', Vol. 13. 2012 was a Hittite god who most likely served as a patron of farming, though he has also been suggested to have been a storm god or an embodiment of crops. He was a son of the weather god Tarḫunna ( Taru) and the solar goddess Arinniti in the system of their mythology. His wife was the goddess Ḫatepuna, though he was also paired with and Kataḫḫa at various cultic centres. Telipinu was honored every nine years with an extravagant festival in the autumn at Ḫanḫana and Kašḫa, wherein 1000 sheep and 50 oxen were sacrificed and the symbol of the god, an oak tree, was replanted. He was also invoked formulaically in a daily prayer for King Muršili II during the latter's reign. An ancient Hittite myth about Telipinu, the ''Telipinu Myth'', describes how his disappearance causes all fertility to fai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ḫuwaššanna
Ḫuwaššanna was a goddess worshiped in Hittite religion and Luwian religion in the second millennium BCE. Her name could be written phonetically or using the logogram dingir, dGazbaba, GAZ.BA.BA and its variants. She was the main goddess of the city of Ḫupišna, though is also attested in association with Kuliwišna. Two types of priestesses, ''ḫuwaššannalli'' and ''alḫuitra'', are attested exclusively in association with her. She was no longer worshiped in the first millennium BCE. Name and character Ḫuwaššanna's name was written in cuneiform as ''dingir, dḪu-(u-)ṷa-aš-ša-an-na''. Sometimes the diacritics are omitted in transcription, resulting in the spelling Huwassanna. The etymology of this theonym is uncertain. The name of the sparsely attested Mesopotamian goddess Gazbaba could be used as a logographic writing of Ḫuwaššanna's. The reading has been established based on comparison between the list of deities invoked in a treaty between Šuppiluliuma I a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ankuwa
Ankuwa was an ancient Hattian and Hittite settlement in central Anatolia. Along with Hattusa and Katapa, it was one of the capitals from which the Hittite kings reigned during the year. Travelling from Hattusa, the royal entourage would arrive at Imralla on the first night, Hobigassa on the second, and Ankuwa on the third. The settlement has been linked to modern Ankara Ankara is the capital city of Turkey and List of national capitals by area, the largest capital by area in the world. Located in the Central Anatolia Region, central part of Anatolia, the city has a population of 5,290,822 in its urban center ( ... for etymological reasons, but Hittite sources have been discovered to place the settlement along the southern bend of the Marrassandtiya River, the modern Kızılırmak. Alishar Hüyük has also been suggested as a location. Sources * "Ankuva." ''Reallexikon der Assyriologie.'' erman. Hittite cities Hattian cities ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hattusa
Hattusa, also Hattuşa, Ḫattuša, Hattusas, or Hattusha, was the capital of the Hittites, Hittite Empire in the late Bronze Age during two distinct periods. Its ruins lie near modern Boğazkale, Turkey (originally Boğazköy) within the great loop of the Kızılırmak River (Hittite: ''Marashantiya''; Greek: ''Halys River, Halys''). Charles Texier brought attention to the ruins after his visit in 1834. Over the following century, sporadic exploration occurred, involving different archaeologists. The Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft, German Oriental Society and the German Archaeological Institute began systematic excavations in the early 20th century, which continue to this day. Hattusa was added to the List of World Heritage Sites in Turkey, UNESCO World Heritage Site list in 1986. History The earliest traces of settlement on the site are from the sixth millennium BC during the Chalcolithic period. Toward the end of the 3rd Millennium BC the Hattian people established a settle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hattian Deities
Hattian may refer to: * someone or something related to Hattians, an ancient people of Anatolia ** Hattian language, an extinct language, spoken by the Hattians * someone or something related to the land of Hatti (region), Hatti, an ancient region in Anatolia * Hattian Bala, a town in Azad Kashmir ** Hattian Bala District, a districts in Azad Kashmir * Hattian Dupatta, a town in Azad Kashmir * Hattian Graham (b. 1973), a Barbadian cricketer See also *Hattic (other) *Hatti (other) *Hattush (other) *Hittite (other) {{Disambig Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Gustav Güterbock
Hans Gustav Güterbock (May 27, 1908 – March 29, 2000) was a Germany, German-Americans, American Hittitologist. Born and trained in Germany, his career was ended with the rise of the Nazis because of his Jewish heritage, and he was forced to resettle in Turkey. After the Second World War, he immigrated to the United States and spent the rest of his career at the University of Chicago. Early life Born in Berlin to a father of Jewish heritage who served as the secretary of the Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft, Güterbock spent a year studying the Hittite language with Hans Ehelolf before moving on to Leipzig University. There he continued his Hittite studies and took up Assyriology, studying under Johannes Friedrich (linguist), Johannes Friedrich and Benno Landsberger and earning a doctorate. With private funding, Güterbock managed to spend three years in Hattusa, Bogazköy as an epigrapher on a German team (while also employed by the Berlin Museum from 1933 to 1935), but Nazi Ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catalogue Des Textes Hittites
The corpus of texts written in the Hittite language consists of more than 30,000 tablets or fragments that have been excavated from the royal archives of the capital of the Hittite Kingdom, Hattusa, close to the modern Turkish town of Boğazkale or Boğazköy. While Hattusa has yielded the majority of tablets, other sites where they have been found include: Maşat Höyük, Ortaköy, Kuşaklı or Kayalıpınar in Turkey, Alalakh, Ugarit and Emar in Syria, Amarna in Egypt. The tablets are mostly conserved in the Turkish museums of Ankara, Istanbul, Boğazkale and Çorum (Ortaköy) as well as in international museums such as the Pergamonmuseum in Berlin, the British Museum in London and the Musée du Louvre in Paris. The corpus is indexed by the ''Catalogue des Textes Hittites'' (CTH, since 1971). The catalogue is only a classification of texts; it does not give the texts. One traditionally cites texts by their numbers in CTH. Major sources for studies of selected texts themsel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kadesh (Syria)
Kadesh, or Qadesh, was an ancient city of the Levant on or near the headwaters or a ford of the Orontes River. It was of some importance during the Late Bronze Age and is mentioned in the Amarna letters. It was the site of the Battle of Kadesh between the Hittite and Egyptian empires in the 13th century BC.The Greek historian Herodotus records a tradition that after the battle at Megiddo, Neco overthrew Kadytis, which is usually identified with the Philistine city of Gaza. ” Name and location The Greek historian Herodotus records a tradition that after the battle at Megiddo, Neco overthrew Kadytis, which is usually identified with the Philistine city of GazaThe name is from the West Semitic ( Canaanite) root Q-D-Š "holy". It is rendered ''Qdšw'' or ''Qdš'' in Egyptian hieroglyphic and ''Kinza'' in Hittite. The place name appears in several slightly different Akkadian spellings in the Amarna letters, including ''Qidšu'' (EA 162, 188, 189, 190 ), ''Qidši'' (EA 53, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cybistra
Cybistra or Kybistra, earlier known as Ḫubišna, was a town of ancient Cappadocia or Cilicia. The main city of Kybistra/Ḫubišna was located at the site corresponding to present-day , about 10 km northeast of the modern town of Ereğli in Konya Province, Turkey. It was the capital of a Luwian-speaking Neo-Hittite kingdom in the 1st millennium BCE. Name The name of the city was recorded during the Old Assyrian Colony Period as (). The name of the city was ( and ) or () during the Hittite Empire. The city appears in Neo-Assyrian records under the names: * (), * (), * and (). During Classical Antiquity, the city became known as Cybistra (; ). History Bronze Age Middle Bronze Prior to the Hittite period, Hubisna was a stregic hub guarding the northern end of the Cilician Gates going south to Tarsus. According to the Telepinu Proclamation, Ḫubišna was one of the places which the 17th century BCE founder-king of the Hittite Old Kingdom, Labarna I had conquer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hittitology
Hittitology is the study of the Hittites, an ancient Anatolian people that established an empire around Hattusa in the 2nd millennium BCE. It combines aspects of the archaeology, history, philology, and art history of the Hittite civilisation. There are two universities in Turkey with a Hittitology major studies besides some minors and chairs, one of Istanbul University and Ankara University. A minor programme in Hittitology (B.A.) has recently been created at Philipps-Marburg University, Germany. List of Hittitologists A partial list of notable Hittite scholars includes: * Selim Adalı * Metin Alparslan * Vladislav Ardzinba (1945–2010) * Trevor R. Bryce (born 1940) * Gary Beckman * Jeanny Vorys Canby * Yaşar Coşkun * Philo H. J. Houwink ten Cate () * Birgit Christiansen * Billie Jean Collins * Halet Çambel * Petra Goedegebuure * Albrecht Goetze (1897–1971) * Oliver Gurney (1911–2001) * Hans G. Güterbock (1908–2000) * Harry A. Hoffner (1934–2015) * Theo va ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
