Twenty-six texts found in the Hittite capital of Hattusa dating from the fifteenth-thirteenth centuries B.C.E. contain references to a land known as "Ahhiyawa," which most scholars now identify with the Late Bronze Age Mycenaean world. The subject of continuing study and controversy since they were first published in 1924, the letters are still at the center of Mycenaean-Hittite studies and are now considered in studies and courses concerned with Troy, the Trojan War, and the role of both Mycenaeans and Hittites in that possible conflict. This volume offers, for the first time in a single source, English translations of all twenty-six Ahhiyawa texts and a commentary and brief exposition on each text's historical implications. The volume also includes an introductory essay to the whole Ahhiyawa "problem" as well as a longer essay on Mycenaean-Hittite interconnections and the current state of the discipline.
- ISBN10 9004219714
- ISBN13 9789004219717
- Publish Date 28 August 2012 (first published 12 December 2011)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 20 May 2014
- Publish Country NL
- Imprint Brill
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 302
- Language English
- URL http://brill.com/product_id49792