Book Chapter

Philological Remarks on the Sealings from Empire Period of Karkemish

  • Hasan Peker

Over 500 clay sealings from the Hittite Empire Period were retrieved in a LB II stratum of Area C East in the Lower Palace area (excavations seasons 2017-2021). 301 clay sealings were sealed 493 times by over 50 different seals belonging to c. 35 officials. In this paper, philological comments will be made about the officials of the relevant archive whose names and/or titles/professions are legible and a new interpretation of the sign L254 will be suggested as an Addendum.

  • Keywords:
  • Hittites,
  • Karkemish,
  • Late Bronze Age Seals and Sealings,
  • Anatolian Hieroglyphs,
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Hasan Peker

Istanbul University, Turkey - ORCID: 0000-0002-4290-5858

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Chapter Title

Philological Remarks on the Sealings from Empire Period of Karkemish

Authors

Hasan Peker

Language

English

DOI

10.36253/979-12-215-0042-4.09

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2023

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Book Title

Administrative Practices and Political Control in Anatolian and Syro-Anatolian Polities in the 2nd and 1st Millennium BCE

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Clelia Mora, Giulia Torri

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216

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2023

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Firenze University Press

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