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Title Luwian identities : culture, language and religion between Anatolia and the Aegean / edited by Alice Mouton, Ian Rutherford, Ilya Yakubovich
Published Boston : Brill, 2013

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Series Culture and history of the ancient Near East, 1566-2055 ; volume 64
Culture and history of the ancient Near East ; volume 64.
Contents Introduction; Part One Present State of the Luwian Studies; Luwians versus Hittites; Peoples and Maps-Nomenclature and Definitions; Part Two Luwian Communities of Central Anatolia; Names on Seals, Names in Texts. Who Were These People?; Anatolian Names in -wiya and the Structure of Empire Luwian Onomastics; Luwian Words in Hittite Festivals; CTH 767.7-The Birth Ritual of Pittei: Its Occasion and the Use of Luwianisms; 'Luwian' Religious Texts in the Archives of Ha̮ttuša; The Luwian Cult of the Goddess Huwassanna vs. Her Position in the "Hittite State Cult."
Part Three Luwian Culture in South-Eastern AnatoliaA Luwian Shrine? The Stele Building at Kilise Tepe; A New Luwian Rock Inscription from Kahramanmaraş; Carchemish Before and After 1200 BC; Part Four Luwian and Luwic Groups of Western Anatolia; James Mellaart and the Luwians: A Culture-(Pre)history; The Cultural Development of Western Anatolia in the Third and Second Millennia BC and its Relationship with Migration Theories; Luwian Religion, a Research Project: The Case of "Hittite" Augury; Hieroglyphic Inscriptions of Western Anatolia: Long Arm of the Empire or Vernacular Tradition(s)?
Greek (and our) Views on the KariansPart Five Cultural Contacts between Luwian or Luwic Groups and the Aegean; Divine Things: The Ivories from the Artemision and the Luwian Identity of Ephesos; Iyarri at the Interface: The Origins of Ares; Singers of Lazpa: Reconstructing Identities on Bronze Age Lesbos; Index
Summary The Luwians inhabited Anatolia and Syria some three thousand years ago. The present collective volume addresses the questions of their homeland, material and spiritual culture, and relationship with neighbors. It strives to promote Luwian studies as a new interdisciplinary research field
Notes Includes index
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Subject Luwians -- Congresses
HISTORY -- Ancient -- General.
Luwians
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Mouton, Alice
Rutherford, Ian
Yakubovich, Ilya S
LC no. 2013011075
ISBN 9789004253414
9004253416