Book Chapter

The Court and Administration of Karkemish in the Late Bronze Age

  • Clelia Mora
  • Maria Elena Balza
  • Marco De Pietri

The purpose of this paper is to update the study and analysis of the administration of Karkemish during the final phase of the Hittite kingdom. The first introductory part outlines previous contributions and results. The second part presents the updated lists of princes and officials belonging to the court of Karkemish. The third part attempts to place princes and officials in chronological order (according to the different periods of reigns). Lastly, the fourth part provides an in-depth prosopographic analysis regarding some important or interesting officials.

  • Keywords:
  • Karkemish,
  • princes,
  • officials,
  • Late Bronze Age,
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Clelia Mora

University of Pavia, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0003-3838-2078

Maria Elena Balza

University of Pavia, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0002-8280-3653

Marco De Pietri

University of Pavia, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0003-1330-2617

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Chapter Title

The Court and Administration of Karkemish in the Late Bronze Age

Authors

Clelia Mora, Maria Elena Balza, Marco De Pietri

Language

English

DOI

10.36253/979-12-215-0042-4.08

Peer Reviewed

Publication Year

2023

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© 2023 Author(s)

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CC BY 4.0

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Book Title

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

Editors

Clelia Mora, Giulia Torri

Peer Reviewed

Number of Pages

216

Publication Year

2023

Copyright Information

© 2023 Author(s)

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CC BY 4.0

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CC0 1.0

Publisher Name

Firenze University Press

DOI

10.36253/979-12-215-0042-4

ISBN Print

979-12-215-0041-7

eISBN (pdf)

979-12-215-0042-4

Series Title

Studia Asiana

Series ISSN

1974-7837

Series E-ISSN

2612-808X

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