State Correspondence in the Hittite World

Weeden, Mark

Abstract

Chapter surveys the corpus of letters between officials and the royal family to throw light on mechanisms of communication and decision-making within the Late Bronze Age Hittite state.

Citation

Weeden, M. (2014). State Correspondence in the Hittite World. In K. Radner (Ed.), State Correspondence in the Ancient World: From New Kingdom Egypt to the Roman Empire (32-64). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof%3Aoso/9780199354771.003.0003

• Publication Date: Apr 1, 2014
• Deposit Date: Mar 3, 2014
• Publicly Available Date: Mar 3, 2025
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Pages: 32-64
• Book Title: State Correspondence in the Ancient World: From New Kingdom Egypt to the Roman Empire
• ISBN: 9780199354771
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof%3Aoso/9780199354771.003.0003
• Keywords: State communication, Long-distance communication, Letter, Messenger, Envoy, Anatolia, Hittite Empire, Late Bronze Age, Cuneiform tablet, Wooden writing tablet