Kizzuwatna. History of Cilicia in the Middle and Late Bronze Age (ca. 2000-1200 BC)

Andrea Trameri, Ph.D. (2020), Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University, is a researcher in Hittitology at the University of Würzburg, Germany. He has published studies of archaeological, philological and historical scope, primarily focused on Hittite Anatolia, including Purifying a House from Blood. A Hittite Ritual for the Ancient Gods (Lockwood, 2022).

• ForewordList of Figures and Tables1 Introduction1.1 Topic1.2 Space and Time1.3 Nature of the Primary Evidence1.4 Previous Studies1.5 Methodology, Goals and Historiographical Conception1.6 On Chronology and Absolute Dates1.7 Note on Periodization of Hittite History, Language and Paleography Transcription Standards2 Historical Geography of Kizzuwatna2.1 Tasks and Methodological Problems2.2 The Name of Kizzuwatna2.3 Other Names of Kizzuwatna and Cilicia in the Late Bronze Age?2.4 The Territory of Kizzuwatna through Time2.5 The Borders of Kizzuwatna according to the Hittite Sources2.6 The Location of Lawazantiya2.7 Kummani and Kizzuwatna2.8 The Eastern Limits of Kizzuwatna: Philological and Archaeological Evidence2.9 An Oath of the Men of Išmirikka for Arnuwanda i (CTH 133), and the Eastern Frontier2.10 Summary3 Cilicia in the Middle Bronze Age (ca. 2000–1550 BC)3.1 Archaeology3.2 Trade Networks3.3 Languages and People: Hurrian(s) and Luwian(s) in Cilicia?3.4 Summary4 “And He Made the Lands the Borders of the Sea”: Cilicia and the Old Hittite Kingdom (17th–16th c.)4.1 Statement of the Problem4.2 The via Tauri and the Route to Syria4.3 The Early Old Kingdom Campaigns and Other Sources4.4 The Tarsus Land Grant of Tabarna, Great King4.5 Archaeology and Material Culture in Cilicia (17th–16th c.)4.6 Summary5 The Age of Kizzuwatna (Late 16th–Late 15th c.)5.1 The Origins of the Kingdom5.2 The Seal of Išpudaḫšu, Great King5.3 Kizzuwatna, a “Great Kingdom”?5.4 Negotiating with the Hittites: the Diplomatic Corpus5.5 Other Documents for a History of Kizzuwatna5.6 Kizzuwatna and Mittani5.7 Archaeology5.8 Summary6 A Silent Demise: Kizzuwatna and the Hittite New Kingdom in the Late 15th to Mid-14th c.6.1 The Reign of Sunaššura under Mittani (AlT 14)6.2 A New Kingdom: the Reign of Tudḫaliya6.3 The Treaty between Tudḫaliya I and Sunaššura6.4 Kizzuwatna and the Hittite Early New Kingdom’s Dynasty6.5 The Annexation of Kizzuwatna to the Hittite Kingdom6.6 Archaeology of the (Early) Empire in Cilicia6.7 Summary7 Kizzuwatna during the Hittite Empire Period7.1 The Priests of Kizzuwatna: Kantuzili and Telipinu7.2 Suppiluliuma and the Syrian Campaigns7.3 Kizzuwatna in the Empire Age: the Reigns of Mursili II and Muwatalli II7.4 Queen Pudo-Ḫeba, a “Daughter of Kizzuwatna”7.5 Sources on the Late Empire in Cilicia7.6 Archaeology of the Hittite Empire in Cilicia, and the Prodromes to the Iron Age: Outline8 Aspects of Society, Culture and Religion in Kizzuwatna8.1 Concerning Cultural Identities in Kizzuwatna8.2 Languages and Populations in the Historical Period8.3 The Dynasty: Onomastics and Related Questions8.4 Religion of Kizzuwatna: Deities and Cults8.5 The Importation of the Kizzuwatnean Religious Traditions into the Hittite Context9 Conclusion: an Outline of the History of Kizzuwatna9.1 The Origins of the Kingdom and the Early Sources9.2 A Diplomatic History: Kizzuwatna and the Hittites (Late 16th–Mid 15th c.)9.3 Languages, Culture and Religion in Kizzuwatna9.4 The Rise of Mittani and the End of Independence9.5 The Annexation of Kizzuwatna to the Hittite Kingdom9.6 The New Kingdom and the Role of Kizzuwatna in Hittite History9.7 The Fall of the Empire and the Transition into the Iron AgeBibliographyIndex of Cited TextsGeneral Index