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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.

Publication Info. Leiden : Sidestone Press, [2019]
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Description 1 online resource (160 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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Subject Bronze age -- Aegean Sea.
Bronze age.
Aegean Sea -- History, Local.
Aegean Sea -- History.
Mediterranean Sea -- Aegean Sea.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Local history.
Added Author Kelder, Jorrit M., editor.
Waal, Willemijn, editor.
ISBN 9789088907999 (electronic book)
9088907994 (electronic book)
9789088908002 (hardcover)
9088908001 (hardcover)
9789088907982 (paperback)
9088907986 (paperback)