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Title From 'Lugal. Gal' to 'Wanax' : kingship and political organisation in the Late Bronze Age Aegean / edited by Jorrit M. Kelder & Willemijn J.I. Waal
Published Leiden : Sidestone Press, [2019]
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Description 1 online resource (160 pages) : illustrations
Contents Die Mykenische Staatenwelt: Zwischen Mykene und ThebenMichael Bányai; Epilogue: Kings and Great Kings in the Aegean and Beyond; Jorrit Kelder and Willemijn Waal; Lege pagina
Summary In this book the much-debated problem of political organization in Mycenaean Greece (ca. 1400-1200 BC) is analysed and contextualised through the prism of archaeology and contemporary textual (Linear B, Egyptian and Hittite) evidence. From the early 14th century BC onwards, Hittite texts refer to a land Ahhiya(wa). The exact geographic position of this land has been the focus of academic debate for more than a century, but most specialists nowadays agree that it must have been a Hittite designation for a part, or all of, the Mycenaean world. On at least two occasions, the ruler of Ahhiyawa is
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Bronze age -- Aegean Sea
Bronze age
SUBJECT Aegean Sea -- History, Local
Aegean Sea -- History
Subject Mediterranean Sea -- Aegean Sea
Genre/Form History
Local history
Form Electronic book
Author Kelder, Jorrit M., editor.
Waal, Willemijn., editor
ISBN 9789088907999
9088907994