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Luwian identities : culture, language and religion between Anatolia and the Aegean
Title:
Luwian identities : culture, language and religion between Anatolia and the Aegean
Author:
Mouton, Alice.
ISBN:
9789004253414
Publication Information:
Boston : Brill, 2013.
Physical Description:
1 online resource.
Series:
Culture and history of the ancient Near East, volume 64

Culture and history of the ancient Near East ; volume 64.
General Note:
Includes index.
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.
Abstract:
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.
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