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From 'LUGAL.GAL' TO 'Wanax' - Kingship and Political Organisation in the Late Bronze Age Aegean (Paperback)
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From 'LUGAL.GAL' TO 'Wanax' - Kingship and Political Organisation in the Late Bronze Age Aegean (Paperback)
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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 designated as LUGAL.GAL –‘Great King’-; a title
that was normally reserved for a select group of kings (such as the
kings of Egypt, Assyria, Mitanni, Babylon and Hatti itself). The
Hittite attribution of this title thus seems to signify the
Ahhiyawan King’s supra-regional importance: it indicates his
power over other, ‘lesser’ kings, and suggests that his
relation to these vassals must have been comparable to the
relations between the Hittite King and his own vassal rulers. The
apparent Hittite perception of such an important ruler in the
Mycenaean world is, however, completely at odds with the prevailing
view of the Mycenaean world as a patchwork of independent states,
all of which were ruled by a local ‘wanax’ -King. The papers in
this volume address this apparent dichotomy and discuss various
interpretations of the available evidence, and contextualise the
role of the ruler in the Mycenaean world through comparisons with
the contemporary Near East.
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